POLS 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Treaty 2, Privy Council Of The United Kingdom, Provincial Rights Party
12 Feb 2017
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Delegates from each colony representatives from government and opposition. Quebec resolutions = bna, 1867 (now know as the constitution act) 3 main elements: federal division of powers residual clause (feds, bicameral parliament house (rep by pop)/ senate (appointed, provincial debts covered. Praises american constitution: one of the most skillful works which human intelligence ever created; one of the most perfect organizations that ever governed free people . Yet canada avoids its defects: president: a despot, a one man power given general legislature all the great subjects of legislation trade and commerce, military and navy, navigation and shipping, currency, naturalization of aliens. Reservation (90): lieutenant governor had authority to receive assent from (prevent passage of) provincial legislation. Disallowance (55-7): a provincial bill could still be vetoed by the federal government within one year of passage even though the lieutenant governor had given royal assent. All sorts of opportunities for centralization in the canadian constitution.
