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Introduction Formal amendment rules have been the subject of great controversy in contemporary constitutional politics in Canada. From the patriation of the constitution in 1982, to the nearly ratified 1987 Meech Lake Accord[1] and the similarly unsuccessful 1992 Charlottetown Accord,[2] and through the Supreme Court’s Secession Reference[3] in 1998, formal amendment rules have been at … Continued