Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Report On The Affairs Of British North America, Responsible Government, Quebec Act
29 Apr 2013
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Institutions: pre-confederation, reasons for confederation, principles of confederation, theories of confederation, discuss assignment. Complex sets of established practices, or rules of the game" that enable us to accomplish collective ends : two key elements, an overriding set of purposes or tasks, a patterned set of roles connected to those purposes. Pre-confederation: early settlement, the seven years war (1754-1763) Post-war developments: quebec act (1774) designed to punish american colonies, american revolution (1775-1783) Reinforced existence of british canada: constitutional act (1791) 1846 british colonies had preferential access to british markets. The british signed a north american free trade agreement with the u. s. Reciprocity treaty between the two as well for things such as minerals, fish, lumber, agricultural products. The road to confederation: reasons for confederation. Military: why not annexation by us, union. Merger of canada (east and west), nova scotia, new brunswick. Residuary power, national dimension, emergency power, federal paramountcy: british parliamentary system.
