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Publius: The Journal of Federalism 1984 14(1):93-108;
© 1984 by CSF Associates Inc.
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The Enduring Colony? Political Institutions and Political Science in Canada

Mark Sproule-Jones
McMaster University

The article distinguishes between parliamentary sovereignty as a representative, functionally effective, and mixed and balanced institution, and the practice of legislative supremacy in Canada. It is argued that Canada retained its colonial and executive centered system of government but replaced the imperially-appointed elites with indigenous elites. It is suggested that this latter conception of "legislative supremacy" is failing by its own standards of representativeness and administrative efficiency. Much of the writings of Canadian political science reflect and rationalize the operative assumptions of this executive centered "colonial" type of system of government.


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