[JaredL]

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Also, Québec hasn't signed the 1982 constitution.

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And for the last 25 years, they pull that out as an excuse to do whatever the [censored] they want, the law be damned.

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It should be noted, at least so far as I know, that no federal state in the world (and there are a lot of them), requires unanimity among the sub-national units (provinces, states, ...) to pass law, even constitutional law. So the 'we didn't sign it, we aren't bound to it' argument doesn't fly.

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This may be true now, but wasn't always so. Just after the revolutionary war (actually probably while it was still going), the US was under the Articles of Confederation. Under the Articles, to make changes required unanimous approval of all 13 states.