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... Canada and the Canadian Question . Gerald John Wheeler : Confederation Law of Canada . A. H. F. Lefroy : Legislative Power in Canada . For information as to the progress of Federation and constitutional PREFACE . ix .
... Canada and the Canadian Question . Gerald John Wheeler : Confederation Law of Canada . A. H. F. Lefroy : Legislative Power in Canada . For information as to the progress of Federation and constitutional PREFACE . ix .
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... Canada - Quebec Act Colonial Charter - Declaration that Great Britain 496 478 , 599 477 511 will not tax the colonies 318 , 348 22 Geo . III . ( 1782 ) c . 45 . Contractors : House of Commons 493 c . 53 . c . 75 . Repeal of Act for ...
... Canada - Quebec Act Colonial Charter - Declaration that Great Britain 496 478 , 599 477 511 will not tax the colonies 318 , 348 22 Geo . III . ( 1782 ) c . 45 . Contractors : House of Commons 493 c . 53 . c . 75 . Repeal of Act for ...
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... Canada - Privileges Pacific Islands Canada : Copyright ( Judicature ) Appellate Jurisdiction Merchant Shipping South African Union Foreign Jurisdiction Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Election Petitions ... Greenwich Time 506 637 595 ...
... Canada - Privileges Pacific Islands Canada : Copyright ( Judicature ) Appellate Jurisdiction Merchant Shipping South African Union Foreign Jurisdiction Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Election Petitions ... Greenwich Time 506 637 595 ...
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... Canada v . Attorney - General of Ontario ( pardoning power ) , 3 Ont . App . 6 ; 19 Ont . Rep . 6 .. Attorney - General for Canada v . Flint ( Vice - Admiralty Courts - power to vest jurisdiction ) , 3 S.C. ( Nov. Scot . ) 453 ; 16 ...
... Canada v . Attorney - General of Ontario ( pardoning power ) , 3 Ont . App . 6 ; 19 Ont . Rep . 6 .. Attorney - General for Canada v . Flint ( Vice - Admiralty Courts - power to vest jurisdiction ) , 3 S.C. ( Nov. Scot . ) 453 ; 16 ...
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... Canada ( assignment for creditors ) ( 1894 ) , App . Cas . 189 Attorney - General of Ontario v . Attorney - General for Canada ( Liquor Prohi- bition ) ( 1896 ) , App . Cas . 348 Attorney - General of Quebec v . Murray , 25 Lower Can ...
... Canada ( assignment for creditors ) ( 1894 ) , App . Cas . 189 Attorney - General of Ontario v . Attorney - General for Canada ( Liquor Prohi- bition ) ( 1896 ) , App . Cas . 348 Attorney - General of Quebec v . Murray , 25 Lower Can ...
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Page 522 - 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 652 - 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.
Page 283 - And whereas, it hath pleased the great Governor of the World, to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify, the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union...
Page 283 - ... of the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations...
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 549 - Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the , raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.
Page 539 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 652 - 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 269 - The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws...
Page 545 - And any Matter coming within any of the Classes of Subjects enumerated in this Section shall not be deemed to come within the Class of Matters of a local or private Nature comprised in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislature of the Provinces.