Danilov S.Yu. Constitutional reform in Canada: legal political aspects

Abstract: This works is dedicated to the ways and means of overcoming the legal and political hurdles on the path to reform the supreme law of the nation. As an illustration, the author chooses the constitutional process of one of the oldest and most respected constitutional democratic countries belonging to the legal family of nations of “common law”. The article reveals the fundamental and specific features of the mechanism of legal constitutional regulation that has formed in this North American country, including the role and place of such sources of legal regulation as legal constitutional tradition and precedent within the constitutional doctrine and practice of this nation. The author defines the level of the necessity and reasonableness of a constitutional reform and follows its main stages; analyzes the effect of the reform upon the modern state of Canada’s constitutionalism; evaluates the level of administrative skills of the institutions of federal authority in realization of the reform.

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