A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada from the Earliest Period to the Year 1888; Including the British North America Act, 1867, and a Digest of Judicial Decisions on Questions of Legislative JurisdictionDawson Bros., 1888 - 238 pages |
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... persons who wish to study the general character of the constitutional system of the Dominion , whose institutions are now attracting considerable attention in other countries . HOUSE OF COMMONS , 12th April , 1888 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
... persons who wish to study the general character of the constitutional system of the Dominion , whose institutions are now attracting considerable attention in other countries . HOUSE OF COMMONS , 12th April , 1888 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I ...
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... person , with the advice of prudent and capable persons , prescribe - subject to our good pleasure - all laws , statutes and ordinances ; in so far as they may conform to our own , in regard to such things and concernments as are not ...
... person , with the advice of prudent and capable persons , prescribe - subject to our good pleasure - all laws , statutes and ordinances ; in so far as they may conform to our own , in regard to such things and concernments as are not ...
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... person without obtaining the neces- sary order from Quebec . Neither the seigneur nor the habitant had practically any voice whatever in the gov- ernment ; and the royal governor called out the militia whenever he saw fit , and placed ...
... person without obtaining the neces- sary order from Quebec . Neither the seigneur nor the habitant had practically any voice whatever in the gov- ernment ; and the royal governor called out the militia whenever he saw fit , and placed ...
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... persons duly elected by the majority of the freeholders of the respective parishes and places were required , be- fore taking their seats in the proposed assemblies , to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy , and the de- claration ...
... persons duly elected by the majority of the freeholders of the respective parishes and places were required , be- fore taking their seats in the proposed assemblies , to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy , and the de- claration ...
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... persons professing the religion of the Church of Rome , and en- joying an established form of constitution and system of laws , by which their persons and property had been protected , governed , and ordered for a long series of years ...
... persons professing the religion of the Church of Rome , and en- joying an established form of constitution and system of laws , by which their persons and property had been protected , governed , and ordered for a long series of years ...
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