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 I. Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION, ON the 1st day of July in the present year (1888) the Canadian federation attained its majority ; twenty-one years having elapsed since by an Order in Council the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were formed into the Dominion. Twenty-one years is not a long period in the life of a State, and it is not to be expected that the Constitution of Canada will prove as instructive a subject of study as that of the United States with its hundred years of growth and development. But in many respects the Canadian Constitution offers a special field for the inquirer. It is a successful effort to solve the problem of uniting distinct states or provinces under a central govern- ment. A similar task had already presented itself to an English speaking people, but the conditions of the problem solved in Canada differed in many respects from the condi- tions that faced Washington and his associates. While the American States had to create not merely a central govern- ment but a government which, within the limits laid down, should be supreme, the Canadian Provinces had to organize & Union subject to a supreme Executive, Legislature and Judicature all of which already existed. The executive su- Premacy of the Queen, the legislative power of the Imperial Parliament, and the Judicial functions of the Privy Council nw

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