The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

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

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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 III. The Sources of the Law and the Custom of the Constitution

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SOURCES OF THE CONSTITUTION. 4] 2. Dominion Acts. Many important statutes have been passed by the Parliament of Canada relating to its constitution. Immediately after the Union Act of 1867 came into force a series of statutes had to be passed for the organization of the different departments of State. As regards the Legislature it was not until 1885 that a general election law’ was carried regulating the election of members of the House of Commons, and several subsequent statutes have been passed on the same subject. By the 88 Vic. c. 11 a Supreme Court was established for the Dominion, and on the admission of Rupert's Land and the North West Territories, Acts were passed forming the new province of Manitoba (38 Vic.c.8) and providing for the govern- ment of the North West Territories®. These as well as other Acts will be found in the recently issued edition of the Con- solidated Statutes of Canada. 3. Provincial Acts. The main features of the constitu- tions of Ontario and Quebec are contained in the Union Act of 1867, but as regards the other provinces, though that Act governs the division of legislative power and contains certain general provisions relating to all the provinces, recourse must be had to the respective Provincial Acts for the details of the Provincial Constitutions. It is from these Acts that the functions of the different provincial departments of State, the qualifications of members of, and electors to, the legislative Assemblies, and the organization of the Provincial Judicature are to be learned. The custom that prevails in all the provinces, except in Prince Edward's Island, of revising the Statutes at intervals, and consolidating the law on one subject in one statute, makes the provincial statute book very accessible to students. 4. Orders in Council. The most important Orders in Council relating to Canada that have been issued under Im- perial Statute are those admitting the North West Terri- 1 49 Vie. c. 8. 2 32 & 83 Vic. c. 8.

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