Entstehung und Bedeutung der Preußischen Städteordnung

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Identifikator:: 1885646178

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-253324

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Entstehung und Bedeutung der Preußischen Städteordnung

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Dürr

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: VI, 154 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erster Abschnitt. Die deutschen Städte im Mittelalter: Ihre Blütezeit

Collection:: Economics Books

646 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [parr IV day should always rule with a majority in both provinces of the Union, and Mr. Baldwin actually resigned in 1851! because the members of the upper province rejected a measure for a Court of Chancery. But the system was utterly rotten ; the demand for an increase of the members for Upper Canada became more and more urgent, and a legislative impasse was on hand, for from May 1862 to June 1864 there were no less than five administrations, each of them quite without any real strength. Thereupon the leaders of the two parties decided to aim at a federation of the two Canadas if that alone could be managed, but preferably of all the Colonies then existing except British Columbia, which was in an altogether peculiar position from the other Colonies. The idea of federation had long been in the air; Lord Durham had glanced at it and suggested that a facultative power should be inserted in the Union Act; Nova Scotia had passed a resolve in favour of it in 1854, the Cartier-Macdonald Government of 1854 had mooted it; in 1858 Galt, in 1859 Brown pressed for it; but it was not until the whole machinery of the Government was in ruins in 1864 that the movement became at all real or actual, aided no doubt by the growing dread of the military preponderance of the United States and the need for union in defence. Fortunately the maritime provinces had just decided to confer for a maritime union, and delegates from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland met at Quebec in October 1864. Then in a long session there were drawn up seventy-two articles, the Quebec Resolutions, which were to serve as the basis of the constitution of the new federation, and in 1865 the measure was submitted to the Canadian Parliament and approved by large majorities ; and next year, after the necessary preliminary preparations for the constitutions of the two provinces to be carved out of Canada, a deputation was sent to England to confer with the Imperial authorities. Turcotte, Canada sous I Union, ii, 171-8 ; Macdonald, in Confederation Debates (1865), p. 30; Bourinot, Constitution of Canada, p. 39; Pope, Sir John Macdonald, 1. 151, 182, 222, 245, 251, 335, 336 ; Dent, The last Forty Years: Canada since the Union of 1841, passim.

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