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Old 07-07-2010, 01:37 PM   #207
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Originally Posted by oilyfan View Post
The question was whether Canada is more liberal that the US. Your bolded comment suggests that if the decision was put through a referendum in Canada it would have been defeated, I would dispute that, certainly there is way more support for gay marriages in Canada than the US.

BTW I don't know what you mean by "Constitutional Consensus", if you mean through a courts interpretation of what the Charter of Human Rights guarantees, then that is exactly how it was legalized in the provinces.
Ohhhhhh this is the wrong day to be having this discussion. Seriously, I am hungover and tired and the neural synapses aren't firing at all.

When I say constitution, I mean regimes. That's really what a constitution is: a reflection of what the citizens of a particular society love, hate, honour etc...

Aside from the flamboyant title, Barry Cooper does a pretty good job of explaining it here:

http://www.amazon.ca/Its-Regime-Stup...8531419&sr=8-1
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