CHAPTER XXI. 
IMPERIAL CONTROL OVER THE DOMINION. 
THE legislative powers conferred on the Dominion Par- 
liament and the provincial Legislatures, though of a very 
wide character, are limited in several ways: (1) they do not 
exhaust the whole sphere of legislation, (2) they are con- 
current with and are not exclusive of the legislative powers 
of the Imperial Parliament, (3) where an Imperial and a 
Colonial Statute conflict, the former is to prevail, and (4) 
the Crown may veto any Act of the Dominion Parliament. 
Limita~- 
tions. 
l. Limitatrons on Domanion Legislation. 
Though power is given, in general terms, to the Dominion General 
by section 91 of the B. N. A. Act 1867 “to make laws for Powers. 
the peace, order, and good government of Canada in relation 
to all matters not coming within the classes of subjects by 
this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the 
Provinces,” yet other sections of this Act and at least one 
other Act of Parliament, apart from the clauses defining the 
legislative powers of the Provinces, restrict the powers of the 
Dominion Parliament. 
The most important limitations are as follow :—- 
1. The Dominion has but a limited power of altering its Altering 
constitution. It may prescribe the qualification of voters fonstitn 
and regulate the method of election, but it cannot abolish 
sither House of Parliament, or alter the constitution of the 
Senate, or affect the veto of the Crown. Even its power of