Bibliographic record
Abstract
I have often wondered whether the history of Canadian constitutional law might best be taught by traversing a footbridge of metaphors. In the “Two Row Wampum” of treaty relations, the “compact” of Confederation, the “watertight compartments” and “balance” of the division of powers, the “living tree” of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the “architecture” of our parliamentary structures, Canada’s Constitution has found expression in constructs of the imagination as much as commands of the text. Discerning meaning from abstract constitutional provisions invariably requires a turn to external principles and ideas to guide interpretation and to shape a larger constitutional story of purpose. Metaphors, norms, unwritten principles and narratives will always play a crucial role in constructing meaning in Canadian constitutional law. The question is not should courts turn to constitutional metaphors to guide constitutional interpretation —they will and must as a function of the interpretive role demanded of them —but rather what is the appropriate use of such metaphors in constitutional adjudication.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.019 | 0.055 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".