By Bruce Pardy
"Alberta separatism is often dismissed – even within the province itself – as the domain of a few deluded rural hardliners. But the sentiment and the movement have only grown since the federal election brought another Liberal government to power. And Bruce Pardy, one of the country’s senior legal scholars (and not an even an Albertan), thinks it is time for Alberta to prepare – seriously, definitively, foundationally – for independence. Here Pardy presents 13 provisions that create an elegantly simple architecture for the constitution of an independent – and radically free – Alberta."
Sections
1. Force and Threats of Force Prohibited
2. Using Force to Enforce the Rule Against Force
3. The Meaning of “force and threats of force”
4. Citizens Subject to No Other Laws
5. Flipping the Default
6. Term Limits: Amateur Public Servants
7. Branches of the State and Elections
8. Disempowering Judges
9. Only Human Beings are Legal Persons
10. Citizenship
11. Separation of Powers
12. “Crown Land” and Other Transitions
13. Amendment