CHAPTER XIX. 
D1visioN OF LEGISLATIVE POWER. 
LEGISLATIVE power over Canada is shared amongst the 
fullowing authorities: (1) the Lieutenant-Governors and the 
Provincial Legislatures, (2) the Governor-General and the 
Dominion Parliament, and (3) the Crown and the Imperial 
Parliament. The provinces can legislate on matters which 
are either specifically enumerated or are governed by general 
clauses; the Imperial Parliament has an implied exclusive 
jurisdiction on matters expressly or impliedly reserved: the 
balance of legislative power belongs to the Dominion. But 
sven in those matters committed to the Dominion and the 
provinces the Imperial Parliament retains a concurrent 
jurisdiction. 
It is difficult to refer the distribution of legislative power 
s0 any one principle. The provisions of the Union Act of 
1867 were based on certain resolutions agreed to by the 
Imperial Government and the Canadian provinces, and it is 
aot surprising to find a singular want of principle in the 
framework of the Act. An attempt has been made in it to 
snumerate the respective powers assigned to the Dominion 
and to the provinces, but the impossibility of enumerating all 
she possible subjects on which legislation might be required 
forced the framers to insert two general clauses, one giving 
power to the provinces to legislate on © all matters of a 
merely local or private nature in the province,” and the