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 XIX. Division of legislative power

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230 DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE POWER. ZE0 oie The Governor. The salary of the Governor-General may General be varied by the Dominion Parliament’, but otherwise the gos Ym Parliament has no legal control over his office. The salaries Goreme. of the Lieutenant-Governors are fixed and provided for by Parliament®. The provinces have no legal control over the office of Lieutenant-Governor?, but the Governor-General is by constitutional custom required to rely on the advice of his ministers in making or revoking an appointment, The Senate. The only powers conferred on the Dominion Parliament over the Senate are those for varying the number necessary to form a quorum® and of hearing and determining any question that arises relating to the qualification of a senator or to a vacancy in the Senate®. The Parliament cannot abolish the Senate, nor alter the number of members’, except by providing for the representation of new provinces or of territories not in a province’; nor prescribe what qualifications a senator should possess: all these matters are settled by the Act of Union and subsequent Acts, and can only be altered by the Imperial Parliament. The Pro- The Legislative Council. The provinces, on the other ri hand, have power not only to alter the constitution of the ive il. Legislative Council but even to abolish it’. By section 92 a provincial Legislature may amend from time to time the constitution of the province notwithstanding anything in the Act. The only legislative Council constituted in detail in the Union Act is that of Quebec, as the constitutions of the Legislative Councils in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were continued as they existed at the time the Act passed. Manitoba has taken advantage of the above power and abolished its upper House™. The House of Commons. As regards the House of Com- The Lower Honsge. | B. N. A. Act, 8. 105. 2 Tb. 8. 60. 3 Ib. 8. 92 1). ! See ante, p. 187. 5 B.N. A. Act. 5. 35. 6 Ib. s. 33. / 34 & 35 Vie. (i) c. 28. 8 49 & 50 Vie, ec. 35. ' B. N. A. Act. ss. 72. 88. 92 (1). 10 Man. 39 Vie. c. 28.

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