patriationn.
/patrɪˈeɪʃən/, /peɪtrɪˈeɪʃən/, U.S. /ˌpeɪtriˈeɪʃən/, Canadian English /ˌpeitriˈeiʃən/ Canadian.
The act or process of transferring a constitution or constitutional legislation from a mother country to a former dependency.
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society > law > legislation > [noun] > bringing under that of mother country
patriation1975
1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 May 8/3 Pierre Trudeau..took the opportunity..to ask..why Premier Robert Bourassa was impeding the patriation of the Canadian constitution.
1980 Times 9 Sept. 6/2 The British North America Act of 1867.., which embodies the constitution, is still domiciled in London because of repeated failures by Canadian political leaders to find a ‘patriation’ formula.
1994 W. A. Bogart Courts & Country viii. 244 The final period, 1975–85, was marked in 1982 by the patriation of the Constitution and the ushering in of the Charter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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