Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Should We Cheer? Contested Constitutionalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- Part 1: Governance and Institutions -- 2 Legalise This: The Chartering of Canadian Politics -- 3 Rationalizing Judicial Power: The Mischief of Dialogue Theory -- 4 Courting Controversy: Strategic Judicial Decision Making -- 5 Legislative Activism and Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Institutional Lessons for Canada -- 6 Compromise and the Notwithstanding Clause: Why the Dominant Narrative Distorts Our Understanding -- Part 2: Policy Making and the Courts -- 7 Judicializing Health Policy: Unexpected Lessons and an Inconvenient Truth -- 8 National Security and the Charter -- 9 Canadian Language Rights: Liberties, Claims, and the National Conversation -- 10 Explaining the Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions: Official Minority Language Education Rights outside Quebec -- 11 Reference re Same-Sex Marriage: Making Sense of the Government's Litigation Strategy -- Part 3: Citizenship and Identity -- 12 Bills of Rights as Instruments of Nation Building in Multinational States: The Canadian Charter and Quebec Nationalism -- 13 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter -- 14 The Road Not Taken: Aboriginal Rights after the Re-Imagining of the Canadian Constitutional Order -- Conclusion -- 15 The Charter and Canadian Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.