ABSTRACT
Constitutions, of whatever sort, require a considerable deal of common agreement, and preferably consensus. They need, at the very least, a special procedure for underscoring the nation’s common beliefs and sentiments. Thus, the Canadian Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted only after a fairly extensive and systematic series of ‘roadshows’ which presented the proposals to the mass of Canadians with the proposed changes; Something like consensus was thought preferable to the adoption of more elegant proposals which were not easily embraced and, indeed, during the consultation period, it became clear that some previously preferred solutions were not acceptable at that time.
