Adam Dodek, Ottawa constitutional law scholar,
offers the Canadian constitution to readers.
He explains:
In the U.S., you can walk into any bookstore and buy a copy of the American Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, etc. I can tell you that there are lots of them. I collect them and I own at least 20 different versions.
The Canadian Constitution will be the first of its kind: the only book that contains the whole text of our Constitution and introduces and explains it to Canadians.
Before I wrote this book, the only version of the Constitution was published by the Government of Canada. As a good Canadian and a law professor, I encourage my students to buy it every year. A few years ago, something happened that really pissed me off. I was informed that the Constitution was out of print. It was not available in print form. Worse yet, it appeared that no one but me noticed. I knew right then and there that I would have to write this book and the sooner the better.
The government does still make the constitution texts available
online. But Dodek also offers an index, a glossary, a timeline, and a short history.
