Authors » Colin Pearce

Colin D. Pearce holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on politics, philosophy, and literature in a wide variety of journals, including Humanitas, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Interpretation, Perspectives on Politics, The Kipling Journal, The Simms Review, The Explicator, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Clio, Appraisal, Quadrant, and The South Carolina Review. He recently held the William Gilmore Simms Professorship at the University of South Carolina, served as the President of the South Carolina Political Science Association, and has taught at a variety of universities and colleges. He is currently at the University of Guelph-Humber.

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    Book Review: The Innate Parochialism of Canada’s Modern Constitutional Consensus

    Posted: July 23, 2009

    “If there is one constant theme in the scholarly literature concerning American and Canadian constitutional laws, it is that the two nations are quite different.” That opinion, from which the authors of Judging Democracy will dissent, is the scholarly consensus formed around the notion that the American constitutional tradition “promote(s) individual rights and place(s) substantial restrictions on the capacity of government to legislate for the common good. By contrast the Canadian Charter is much less individualistic in both text and interpretation.” The authors then explain that they “have written this book in part to refute this analysis.”1