Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 475 election merely by reason of any provision of the provincial law disqualifying from having his name on the list or from voting— (a) the holder of any office ; or, (b) any person employed in any capacity in the public service of Canada or of the province ; or, (¢) any person belonging to or engaged in any profession, calling, employment or occupation ; or, (d) any one belonging to any other class of persons who, although possessed of the qualifications generally required by the provincial law, are, by such law, declared to be disqualified by reason of their belonging to such class. There are disfranchised also by chapter 9 voters who have taken bribes. There are laid down by chapters 5, 6 and 7, Edw. VIL c. 41, electoral districts which do not coincide with the electoral districts in force in the various provinces. Each of these districts returns one member, except those of Ottawa, Halifax, and Queen’s (Prince Edward Island), which each returns two members. There are thus 85 districts in Ontario, 65 in Quebec, 17 in Nova Scotia, 13 in New Brunswick, 10 in Manitoba, 7 in British Columbia, 3in Prince Edward Island, and 10 for the Province of Saskatchewan, 7 in Alberta, and 1 for the Yukon Terri- tory. The quorum is twenty. In the Provinces of Canada the qualifications, which it is hardly necessary to give at length, run on the same lines. The franchise has always been fairly liberal from the begin- ning, both in Canada, where it depended on an Imperial Act, 31 Geo. III. c. 31, and in the Maritime Provinces under the Governor’s Commissions, when it was only possible to set up a freeholder or other liberal franchise by virtue of the prerogative. Sir J. Macdonald was a convinced adherent to a property franchise, and it was no doubt a legitimate arrange- ment at a time when the population was very scattered and in consequence often illiterate. But changed times have rendered things otherwise, and the normal franchise is now manhood suffrage, for women’s suffrage is still unpopular ! See Houston, Constitutional Documents of Canada, pp. 11 seq. For the New Brunswick franchise, see Hannay, i. 154; ii. 344, 345. Originally it was given to all males, 21 years old and three months resident, but a property franchise was created in 1791 and reduced in 1889.

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