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This book addresses the highly contentious subject of Canadian Senate reform. Its conclusions reject conventional recommendations and argue that the Senate should remain an appointed body with a more expansive appointment process and restrained powers.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Background, Theory, and Context
Chapter 1: Senatus Publiusque Canadese
Chapter 2: A Counterintuitive Approach to Senate Reform in Canada
Chapter 3: The Upper House as a Belief
Chapter 4: Historical Continuity of the Senate
Chapter 5: Assessing Reform-Neo-Institutional and Related Strategies
Part II: Application and Idealized Constitutional Reform
Chapter 6: Constitutional Amendment, Part I-Legislative Powers
Chapter 7: Constitutional Amendment, Part II-Membership, Representation, and Federalism
Chapter 8: Constitutional Amendment, Part III-Appointment, Partisanship, Diversity, Democratic Theory
Chapter 9: Constitutional Amendment, Part IV-Official Language Protection, Nomination Oversight, Structural Features
Part III: Observations and Non-Constitutional Reform
Chapter 10: Scandal and Its Constitutional Aftermath
Chapter 11: The Senate as It Is, Could Be, and Ought to Be: Non-Constitutional Reform
Appendix A: Constitution Act of 1867 in Respect of the Senate of Canada as Amended
Appendix B: An Agreement on Practices Relating to the Senate of Canada
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
James T. McHugh is professor and former chair at the Department of Political Science at the University of Akron and adjunct lecturer of political science at the University of Vermont.
Summary
This book addresses the highly contentious subject of Canadian Senate reform. Its conclusions reject conventional recommendations and argue that the Senate should remain an appointed body with a more expansive appointment process and restrained powers.
