The Salience of “Writtenness” and “Unwrittenness” as Constitutional Categories in Canada

Abstract

Canada's Constitution sits somewhere between the paradigms of a fully codified written and partially codified unwritten constitutional order. This blog post explains why the differentiation between the written and unwritten matters for our understanding of Canada's constitutional system with a view to terminological, institutional, proceduaral, and policial questions.

Keywords

• Canada
• constitution
• ICONS2024
• Unwritten Constitution