Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is an essential book for those studying Canadian government and politics. This book provides a comprehensive review of the powers of the Crown and the development of Canadian federalism and the legal and political foundations of the Canadian constitution. This book is invaluable for those interested in the Canadian constitution and Canadian federalism for the rich historical and legal detail it provides. The Crown and Canadian Federalism explores the role of the monarchy in the founding of the Canadian constitution and the evolution of Canadian federalism with rich detail across the range of social, political, legal, constitutional, and cultural areas. For example, the broad range of the Crown is detailed with discussions such as the 1763 Royal Proclamation by King George III (as the author notes, the Magna Carta for First Nations, p.51), the development of provincial honors as an illustration of dual sovereignty (“more than one Crown” as the author puts it, p.173), and the development of the co-sovereign jurisdictions embodied through the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Territorial Commissioner (these resolved through a legitimation process established by Prime Minister Harper in 2012 termed the Advisory Committee, p.188). The author, D. Michael Jackson, notes the significance of understanding the essential role of the Crown in the founding, development, and contemporary operation of federalism in Canada. He notes, the Crown is the “key to the way Canadians govern themselves” and “crucial to the evolution of the Canadian state towards true federalism” (pp. 269–270). The Crown is “not only about legal matters like constitutions and governments and courts and legislatures. It is a symbol of values and traditions and heritage, of loyalty, identity and ethos”(p. 272). Jackson covers the breadth of formal and informal functions of the Crown from an impressive breadth of historical and political primary sources and combines them with rich analysis and a comparative perspective with countries that share the same British political heritage, such as Australia, the United States, and New Zealand.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.003 |
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".