 | Paul-André Linteau, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert - History - 1983 - 628 pages
...federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 1reland, with a Constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." The statement that it was the provinces which "expressed their Desire to be federally united" was supported... | |
 | Jerzy Makarczyk - Law - 1984 - 784 pages
...achievement of power by an elected assembly. In 1867 Canada inherited a general conception of government "with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom". Given the Mill/Dicey /Bageot parameters of the constitutional order of the late 19th century, the great... | |
 | Douglas V. Verney - Political Science - 1986 - 480 pages
...their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom." This made clear the monarchical character of the new Dominion (which some would have preferred to call... | |
 | Ian Greene - Law - 1989 - 276 pages
...constitution states that the provinces Conning the new country "[d]esire to be federally united . . . with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom." These words imply that the civil liberties principles that had developed in the United Kingdom before... | |
 | R. Douglas Francis, Howard Palmer - History - 1992 - 776 pages
...their Desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in...Provinces and promote the Interests of the British Empire: etc. Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice... | |
 | Reginald Whitaker - Political Science - 1991 - 356 pages
...noting that the provinces have "expressed their desire to be federally united into One Dominion," that such a union "would conduce to the Welfare of the...promote the Interests of the British Empire," and that it is thus "expedient, not only that the Constitution of the Legislative Authority in the Dominion... | |
 | George Fallis - Political Science - 1992 - 124 pages
...(which included Upper and Lower Canada), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The constitutional preamble says "such a Union would conduce to the welfare of the...provinces and promote the interests of the British Empire" — but it is clear the French should have a special place. To accommodate and protect the French fact,... | |
 | Ian Bushnell - History - 1992 - 619 pages
...their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom." Estey was prepared to find a dominion source of legislative power in section 91 527, the criminal-law... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - Law - 1994 - 900 pages
...preamble in the Act of 1867, reciting the desire of the four Provinces to be united in a federal union with a Constitution "similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom", the political theory which the Act embodies is that of parliamentary Government, with all its social... | |
 | Ged Martin - History - 1995 - 410 pages
...Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single Dominion. The preamble to the British North America Act stated that 'such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and Promote the Interests of the British Empire'.1 It is not always noted that Confederation passed through Westminster in the midst of the... | |
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WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom... 
