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「聯邦主義旨在保護以空間劃分清楚的價值和利益。」 D. V. Smiley and R.L. Watts (1985), cited in I. D. Duchacek (1986:91). 「聯邦中央會走向這類地方獨立抑或接受其合法性，絕大多數決定於參與實際運作的憲法之外力量的平衡。實際上，聯邦中央未必有權阻止分裂。但是，在國際法上，聯邦中央決議其能做什麼或應該怎麼樣做法律權力並無太大爭議。不過，通常，此一決議會影響到聯邦內其他成員集中權力來對付意圖分裂的地區－如1860年代美國內戰和1960年代奈及利亞的內戰。」
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The current process of Quebec’s “peaceful” secession from Canada offers at least three options, Quebec independence pure and simple, a kind of confederate regime whereby Quebec will be an associate member of the federation, and the status quo (evolution within the existing framework). Nonetheless, this analysis suggests yet another option, the Quebec secession as a more realistic option in the Canada - Quebec conundrum which has been muddling through the political landscape of at least in the past three decades. The author believes that Quebec’s regionalism can be classified as a kind of expansionist one. Constitutional politics since Trudeau to the present has been in parallel development with Quebec‘s expansionist regionalism. Canadian constitutionmaking is interpreted as the process of symbolic politics in the struggle over the status of Quebec’s “distinct society” clause, which would virtually push Quebec’s secessionist move even further to the point of complete separation from Canada. In view of the imminent Quebec secession, an implication for Quebec is the shift of focus on the situations after. The next business for the sovereign Quebec will be to meet the challenge of constructing its lingustic identity of Quebec.