The Canadian province of Alberta flirts with secession, raising awkward memories of Britain's departure from the EU.
Category: Constitutional law
Ending gerrymanders?
The venerable American tradition of gerrymandering seems to be entering a golden age, but its excesses may prove its undoing.
Gerrymanders for all (reprise)
Electoral fairness seems further away than ever in the United States, after the Supreme Court overturned the remaining safeguards in the Voting Rights Act.
Learning resources
A setback for Donald Trump in the supreme court offers a possible guide to how other Trumpian excesses might fare in the future.
Fate of an insurrectionist
South Korea's former president is sentenced to life imprisonment, illustrating one way of dealing with insurrection at the top.
Democracy for Victoria?
The system of group voting tickets in Victoria seems to be finally on the way out, although a parliamentary inquiry has failed to agree on deeper structural reform.
A Remembrance Day compilation
Views over the years of the 1975 constitutional crisis.
More politicians?
Australia's government is thinking about increasing the size of federal parliament. The quality of representation needs to be traded off against various legal and practical considerations.
Coup plotters around the world
Brazil's former president is convicted of an attempted coup; similar charges are being brought in Romania, but the US's plotter remains at large.
Breakthrough in the South Pacific
Negotiations in Paris settle on a new constitutional status for New Caledonia, which students of the Australian constitution might find familiar.
The World is Not Enough 