1. See William Riker,Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance(Boston: Little Brown, 1964), 5. See also Michael Burgess and Alain Gagnon, eds., ComparativeFederal-ism and Federation: Competing Traditions and Future Directions(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
2. See David Bell,The Roots of Disunity: A Study of Canadian PoliticalCulture (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991); Peter Brimelow,The Patriot Game: Canada and the Canadian Question Revisited(Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1988); Mary Cooper, WillCanada Fall Apart?(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1990); Richard Merelman,Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991); or Jeremy Webber,Reinventing Canada: Language, Culture, Community, and the Canadian Constitution(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
3. See David J. Bercuson,Canada and the Burden of Unity(Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977). See also Bruce Hodgins, ed.Federalism in Canada and Australia: Historical Perspectives, 1920–1988 (Peterborough, Ont.: Trent University, 1989).
4. For background on the issue, see William Ormsby,The Emergence of the Federal Concept in Canada: 1839–1845(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969); J. R. Mallory, “The Five Faces of Federalism,” in J. Peter Meekison, ed.Canadian Federalism: Myth or Reality(Toronto: Methuen, 1977), 19–30; Alexander Brady, “Federalism in Canada,” inFederalism in the Commonwealth, ed. William Livingston (London: Cassell, 1963), 11–28; and Garth Stevenson,Unfulfilled Union: Canadian Federalism and National Unity(Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979), 29–48 andpassim.
5. Text referring to the British North America Act or the Constitution Act of 1867 can be found in any of a number of different sources. References will be provided here to section numbers of the documents concerned.