*Foundation Dean and Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia.
[1] In the matter of Section 53 of the Supreme Court Act, R.S.C., 1985, C.S-26; and in the matter of a Reference by the Governor in council concerning certain questions relating to the Secession of Quebec from Canada, as set out in Order in Council P.C. 1996-1497, stated September 30, 1996 (http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/pub/1998/vol2/html/1998scr2_0217.html).
[2] The chief examples are Reference re Resolution to Amend the Constitution [1981] 1 S.C.R. 753; and Reference re Manitoba Language Rights [1985] 1 S.C.R. 721 ; Reference re Amendment
[3] See Craven, G., "Of Secession, Federalism, Canada and Quebec" (1991) Dalhousie Law Journal 231.
[4] Ibid. 261; and see Stampp, K., And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-61 (1964).
[5] See Craven, G., Secession: The Ultimate States' Right (1984) ch.3, esp. 34-5.
[6] Ibid. 55-60.
[7] Craven, "Of Federalism", 261-2.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Already cited. The object of that article was to place the Quebec secession movement within the context of similar movements in other Federations. The article is not cited in the reference opinion, although there are some amusing coincidences of thought and syntax: see e.g. the definition of secession in "Of Federalism" at 232, and in the opinion at para. 83.
[10] "Of Federalism", 237-40. See also R. Watts, "Survival and Disintegration" in R. Simeon (ed.), Must Canada Fail? (1977).
[11] Craven, "Of Federalism", 261-2.
[12] Ibid.
[13] See e.g. the discussion of the protection of minority rights at paras. 79-82; and the discussion of the rule of law in paras. 70-74.
[14] See eg Craven, G., The High Court of Australia: A Study in the Abuse of Power (Thirty First Alfred Deakin Lecture) 1997; forthcoming, University of New South Wales Law Journal.
[15] As James Bryce remarked of the American Civil War, "When treason prospers, none dare call it treason": Bryce, J., The American Commonwealth (2nd ed., 1890), I, 409-10.
[16] Craven, "Of Federalism", 255-7
[17] See Craven, G., "The Constitutional Minefield of Australian Republicanism" (1992) Policy 33.
[18] See e.g paras. 97-105.
[19] Paras. 55-60.
[20] Paras. 61-69.
[21] Paras.79-82.
[22] Paras. 70-78.
[23] Melbourne Corporation v. Commonwealth (1947) 74 C.L.R. 31
[24] See e.g. Australian Capital Television Pty. Ltd. v. Commonwealth (1992) 177 C.L.R. 106 Theophanous v. Herald and Weekly Times Limited (1994) 182 C.L.R. 104.
[25] Craven, "The High Court of Australia", 10-12.
[26] See e.g. the discussion of democracy at paras. 61-69
[27] Craven, "The High Court of Australia", 10-12.
[28] See e.g. the comments of Senator Stott-Despoja, Report of the Constitutional Convention (1998), IV, 501.
[29] See e.g. Morin, J.Y., "Le nationale et federalisme" (1964) 49 Rev. Jur. Them. 90.