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... adopted , denying the right of the mother - country to tax the colonies without representation . The Stamp Act was ... adoption of the federal constitution in 1787 , are stirring events which can be only alluded to here for the purpose ...
... adopted , denying the right of the mother - country to tax the colonies without representation . The Stamp Act was ... adoption of the federal constitution in 1787 , are stirring events which can be only alluded to here for the purpose ...
Page 93
... adopted . For the Memorial and correspondence see Votes and Proc . , Leg . Ass . of N.S.W. , 1857 , i . 383 . The Memorial emphasized the need of a Federal Assembly , and the inconvenience resulting from the want of it , and illustrated ...
... adopted . For the Memorial and correspondence see Votes and Proc . , Leg . Ass . of N.S.W. , 1857 , i . 383 . The Memorial emphasized the need of a Federal Assembly , and the inconvenience resulting from the want of it , and illustrated ...
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... adopting some comprehensive measure for a Federal Assembly at as early a date as possible . They recognized the ... adopted unless initiated and recommended by the colonies them- selves . ' " " They heartily endorsed the Victorian ...
... adopting some comprehensive measure for a Federal Assembly at as early a date as possible . They recognized the ... adopted unless initiated and recommended by the colonies them- selves . ' " " They heartily endorsed the Victorian ...
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... adopted the Victorian suggestion that a Conference should be held ; but they recommended that it should not be authorized to bind the Legislature , but only to discuss and report . These recommendations were adopted by both houses , and ...
... adopted the Victorian suggestion that a Conference should be held ; but they recommended that it should not be authorized to bind the Legislature , but only to discuss and report . These recommendations were adopted by both houses , and ...
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... adoption of different tariffs in the two colonies , and as a corollary the establishment of custom - houses on the ... adopted was still a rough approximation to that of Victoria . MURRAY CUSTOMS TREATIES . - Two kinds of traffic had ...
... adoption of different tariffs in the two colonies , and as a corollary the establishment of custom - houses on the ... adopted was still a rough approximation to that of Victoria . MURRAY CUSTOMS TREATIES . - Two kinds of traffic had ...
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Page 496 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 626 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 523 - Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the , raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.
Page 269 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws...
Page 619 - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Page 283 - 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...
Page 626 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Page xxxix - Western Australia, shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of "The Commonwealth of Australia.
Page 504 - Now, the power to regulate commerce embraces a vast field, containing not only many, but exceedingly various, subjects, quite unlike in their nature : some imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of the United States in every port ; and some, like the subject now in question, as imperatively demanding that diversity which alone can meet the local necessities of navigation.
Page 519 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces...