The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XV. The Governor-General

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER XV. TEE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Office THE office of Governor-General of Canada created by the ried by Crown by Letters Patent existed prior to the Union of 1867, Patent. fut after the Confederation the Letters Patent were revised, and new ones were issued in 1878. The Letters Patent create the office and declare that the person who shall fill the office shall be appointed by Commission under Sign Manual and Signet, and that he shall exercise the powers vested in him by virtue of the Letters Patent and of the Commission issued to him, according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him either under Sign Manual and Signet, or by Order in Council, or by Her Majesty through one of the Secretaries of State and in accordance with such laws as may be in force in the Dominion. Changes, When the draft of these Letters Patent was submitted byCanada. t0 the Canadian Government, it was urged by the then Minister of Justice that, as Canada possessed more extensive powers of self-government than had been conceded to any other colony, and consisted not of one province but of seven provinces, the widest powers possible consistent with the British North America Act should be conferred on the Governor-General. This principle was practically adopted by the Home Government, and on the appointment of the Marquis of Lorne several changes were introduced into the Commission and Instructions. of which the more important were as follows :— 1 Ses Appendix.

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