This article provides a comparative analysis of the constitutional constraints on Canadian government decisions to use military force, and makes theoretical and normative arguments for change. It examines how, in contrast to a trend among constitutional democracies, the executive power in Canada has particularly unfettered discretion to engage in armed conflict under the Royal Prerogative....
Tag: <span>Craig Martin</span>
The Trojan Horse of Abe’s Constitutional Amendment Proposal
This paper argues that the new and very modest formal amendment to Article 9 pushed by PM Abe, designed to avoid controversy and debate, could serve to effectively lock in the “reinterpretation“ as a de facto informal amendment to the constitution. From this perspective, the apparent reversal in the scope of Abe‘s amendment ambitions, and...