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Partisanship as Political Science: A Reply to Rainer Knopff and F. L. Morton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2002

Miriam Smith
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
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One of the main points of “Ghosts of the JCPC” is that the study of Charter politics is currently dominated by a sterile and well-worn debate over the legitimacy of judicial review. Rainer Knopff and F. L. Morton return to these issues in their reply. They frequently refer to their own position or to my putative positions in their reply to my work. But, they do not engage in a discussion of what is, or in making arguments about how we might understand or explain what is, rather than on constantly judging what is according to our own personal and partisan political prejudices.

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