POLS 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Indian Act, Constitutional Act 1791, Quebec Act
2 Oct 2017
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Colony"s first laws: common law (judge-made laws) and statute laws. The laws could be amended or abolished by the colonial legislature applying specifically to an overseas english colony. Adoption pass a reception statute that adopted english law and the english law would be received and in force in the colony. Prince edward island, quebec and new brunswick settled by france. A form of government whereby one supreme authority governs the whole country. It was a statute of the english parliament not the canadian parliament. Lacked a formula enabling canadians to amend it themselves. Didn"t contain an entrenched bill/charter of rights for canadian citizens. It was formulated without consulting the first peoples to inhabit the land now called canada. Judicial review on federalism grounds legislation based on a division-of-powers analysis. Involved two aboriginal women who married non-aboriginal men. If they married a non-indian they would lose their status but this was not the same for men (indian.
