In fact, sometimes the participants in fundamental constitutional change find the device of legal justification objectionable exactly because they perceive the legitimacy of the new regime to require an explicit and overt reference to the political forces that actually did bring it into being. When Ireland adopted the Constitution of 1937, the enacting institutions took pains to make clear that they were, in no way, exercising powers granted by the United Kingdom parliament. Similarly, in proposing constitutional reform in Canada, a committee of the Canadian Bar Association, in marked contrast to the sentiment expressed by the Ministry of Justice, unsuccessfully recommended that a new constitution be implemented without recourse to authorities in the United Kingdom for the very purpose of effecting a “break with the established legal order.”