How to use the Guide: Each clause of the Constitution has its own essay in which the commentator has two objectives. First, the author provides an originalist interpretation of that clause.

It’s official… Canada’s Constitution is weird—a mix of British roots, pieced-together documents, and odd quirks that make it one of the most unusual constitutional systems in the world.

Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as proof that the Tea Party wants to take the country backwards, but Tea Party constitutionalists, for the most part ...

“The intervention of the attorney general of Canada would ... challenges the legal interpretation Quebec used to argue that it can unilaterally change the Constitution. At a hearing in January ...