Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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PART IV. THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION! CHAPTER 1 THE DOMINION OF CANADA § 1. Tue ORIGIN OF THE DOMINION For many years after the union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1840 the attempted amalgamation worked as badly a8 could have been expected. It was natural to hope, as did Lord Durham, that in the end the Canadas would become thoroughly English and under an English Legislature, for the power of nationality was not realized in his day, and the error was, if not altogether pardonable, at least natural. But the French Canadians were suspicious of a measure which seemed destined to ruin their nationality, and in the beginning they had a serious grievance in the fact that, though the population of the lower province was very considerably greater than that of the upper province, the epresentation of both in the Legislature was the same. Soon enough, however, the grievance became the other way, and the British in the upper province became justly annoyed by the disproportionate representation of Lower Canada. But it was quite impossible to do anything, for the Bill to amend the proportions would have required two-thirds Majorities in either House, and though a mysterious repeal of this section took place in 1854 2 in the Imperial Act which authorized the making of the Upper House elective, nothing ver came of the idea, as parties were too evenly balanced to permit of the carrying of such a measure. The principle Was adopted in the first decade that the Government of the : Cf. Egerton, Federations and Unions in the British Empire (1911). ton a & 18 Vict. ¢, 118, 5. 5. See Garneau, Histoire du Canada, iii. 275, 376, eo e controversy as to the origin of the change, which had not been asked v the Legislature or Government.

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