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

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INTRODUCTION. not of right yet by special permission: of the Crown, from such Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Subsequent years saw further results of activity on the part of the Canadian legislature in the establishment of a uniform slection law throughout the Dominion (1885) and in the revision and consolidation of all the statutes passed since 1867. a work not yet fully completed. In surveying a Constitution it seems desirable for many reasons to work upwards rather than downwards, that is to say, to begin with the local institutions and end with the sentral government. In the case of Canada this method is specially appropriate, as the legislative powers of the Dominion cannot be understood without reference to the powers of the Provinces. It also seems desirable before referring to the executive which administers laws or the judicature which enforces laws to deal with the legislature which enacts laws. In this work the Province comes under consideration before the Dominion and the legislature before the execu- tive. General The general scheme of the Canadian Constitution may scheme of 10 described as follows. The Legislative power, subject al- ton. ways to the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament, is divided between a central legislature and the provincial legislatures. The Executive power in theory is lodged in the Queen, but in practice it is exercised by three executive bodies, viz. the Lieutenant-Governor with his Provincial Council, the Governor-General with his Privy Council, and the Queen with the English Ministry. The sphere of executive power in each case corresponds with the sphere of legislative power ; the supremacy of the Crown preventing or deter- mining any executive conflict between the Dominion and a province. Each province establishes its own courts of judica- ture, but a Supreme Court, constituted by the Dominion, acts as a Court of Appeal, from which a further appeal may,

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