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Originally Posted by oilyfan
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.
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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