POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Joey Smallwood, Roy Romanow, Pierre Trudeau
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Introduction: the united states has the oldest constitution in the world dating back to 1787, there is no single document in the united kingdom that is called the constitution. Constitutionalism through pictures: the creation of a united canada until the patriation of the constitution. Unit content: the fathers of confederation who were the original politicians that proposed a plan to bring the british colonies together to form a confederation. United states, not all provinces joined the confederation at the same time, with. Newfoundland being the last to join in 1949: joey smallwood signing the agreement that made newfoundland the 10th province of canada in 1949, taken two years after the kitchen accord. Attorney general of ontario), roy romanow (attorney general of. Saskatchewan) and former prime minister jean chretien: this picture was taken in 1982, during the patriation ceremony. This ceremony indicated that the british north america act no longer under the authority of the.