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patriate
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patriate [ˈpætrɪˌeɪt ˈpeɪtrɪˌeɪt]
vb (tr)
to bring under the authority of an autonomous country, for example as in the transfer of the Canadian constitution from UK to Canadian responsibility
patriation  n


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Pierre Elliot Trudeau achieved the patriation of the Constitution and the inclusion of the Charter.
When the plan was adopted by the Arab League in Beirut in 2002, more emphasis was placed on the refugee issue at Lebanon's insistence, with a clause that rejected all forms of Palestinian patriation "which conflict with the special circumstances of the Arab host countries".
One may ask the question, what does the patriation of the constitution have to do with black writing?
 
 
 
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