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| | Canada |
 | | Resolving a dispute that had occupied Trudeau since the beginning of his tenure, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act (also called the Canada Act) in Ottawa on April 17, 1982, thereby cutting the last legal tie between Canada and Britain. | | | Formally considered a constitutional monarchy, Canada is governed by its own House of Commons. | | | Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and as of April 1, 1999, Nunavut). |
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| | Table of contents for The constitution of independence |
| | Constitutional Continuity and Constitutional Independence 315 New constitutional foundations 315 Canada: amending the amending formula 316 New Zealand's ultimate rule of recognition: cutting the Imperial link strand by strand 323 Australia: sovereignty of parliament and sovereignty of the people 328 14. | | | Canada II: An Independent Constitutional Theory 135 The 'Independence' theory 135 The Independence theory from Confederation to the Statute of Westminster 138 The Independence theory after the Statute of Westminster 143 The Independence theory developed 147 The Independence theory prior to patriation 152 Popular sovereignty considered 155 7. | | | Table of contents for The constitution of independence : the development of constitutional theory in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand / Peter C. Oliver. |
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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unilateral secession by a province to be unconstitutional. | | | The power to amend Canada's constitution remained with the British parliament, although subject to the Statute of Westminster, until it was finally "patriated" to Canadian control by the Canada Act 1982. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court and final arbiter; its nine members are directly appointed by Cabinet. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canada |
| | Freedom of worship and the equality of all creeds before the law forms the basis of the political constitution of Canada. | | | Education in Canada is a provincial and not a federal matter. | | | When Canada became a British dependency, the Catholic Church ceased to be the State Church. |
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| | Constitutional Convention - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Constitutional Convention |
| | Raised in New Jersey, he practiced law there and was attorney general (1776–83) of the state before he became a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention (1787). | | | A Philadelphia businessman, he is remembered for his advocacy in his Dissertation of the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North America (1783) of a revision of the Articles of Confederation by creating a new constitution. | | | He was long a member (1774–81, 1783–84) of the Continental Congress, helped to draw up the Articles of Confederation, and after serving as a member of the Constitutional Convention (1787) was one of the strongest proponents of the new Constitution. |
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| | Encyclopedia: O'Donohue v. Canada, 2003 |
| | The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada. | | | On June 26, 2003, Justice Rouleau determined that the Act of Settlement, as part of the Constitution of Canada, could not be invalidated by another part of the Constitution. | | | Unilateral changes by Canada to the rules of succession, whether imposed by the court or otherwise, would be contrary to the commitment given in the Statute of Westminster, would break symmetry and breach the principle of union under the British Crown set out in the preamble to the Constitution Act, 1867. |
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| | Constitutional charter - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Constitutional charter |
| | A constitutional monarchy is one in which the sovereign is restricted in his powers by the nation's representatives; the granting of a constitution accordingly means the transforming of a monarchy more or less absolute into a constitutional state. | | | The constitutions of Britain and the state of Israel are unwritten. | | | In federal states the constitution has, in addition, to provide a clear demarcation of the areas of competence allocated to the state and to the federal government. |
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| | History 30 Activity Guide - Unit Five - Challenges and Opportunities |
| | Canada's second attempt at amending its own constitution had failed, and the challenges of how best to amend the framework of the nation remained. | | | During the 1930 to the 1960, the Communist movement was often the target of law enforcement agencies in both Canada and the United States. | | | Between the late 1920s and 1981, there were ten constitutional conferences held over the issue of "patriating" the constitution and ending the need to ask the British Parliament to approve any amendments to the nation's constitution. |
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| | UNBC Young Liberals CHALLENGE EVERYTHING |
| | The Young Liberals of Canada in British Columbia Executive to conduct the business of the YLC- UNBC, if the YLC- UNBC Executive has failed to perform its duties in accordance with this Constitution and/or the Constitution of the Young Liberals of Canada in British Columbia and/or the Constitution of the Young Liberals of Canada. | | | The YLC-UNBC Executive may propose amendments to the YLC-UNBC Constitution or the Young Liberals of Canada in British Columbia Constitution. | | | Where the Young Liberals of Canada in British Columbia Executive and the members of the YLC-UNBC at a AGM are considering this Constitution, they must interpret and apply it in accordance with these principles: |
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Canada - Elections to the House of Commons |
| | Although both the government and the National Assembly of Quebec rejected the agreements under which the Canada Act was passed and denounced the political legitimacy of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the province was legally bound by the Act. | | | The Parliament of Canada consists of a lower chamber, the House of Commons, whose members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a maximum term of five years, and an upper chamber, the Senate, whose members are appointed on a provincial basis and may hold office until they are 75 years of age. | | | Between 1962 and 1980, eight federal elections were held in Canada, five of which (1962, 1963, 1965, 1972 and 1979) resulted in minority governments, as no party won an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons. |
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| | "The Canadian Constitution, A History Lesson." |
| | My purpose is to ensure that the Bill patriates to Canada the right to make the constitutional and other law of Canada, removes the constitution from the statute book of this country and removes our hitherto retained right to legislate for Canada. | | | We, in Canada, are blessed with a constitution which is fully traceable to the constitution of England, rooted deep, as it is, in English common law, a subject with which I deal elsewhere. | | | A country's constitution is that which the governing part of society tells the rest of us what we cannot do (restrictive, negative, such as is the nature of criminal law). |
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| | Canada Act 1982 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Canada Act 1982 is an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament that severed virtually all remaining constitutional and legislative ties between the United Kingdom and Canada. | | | Pierre Trudeau had hoped originally that the federal Parliament could unilaterally change the constitution, but the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Patriation Reference that a substantial level of consent from the provinces was needed according to constitutional conventions (though not in law). | | | Whilst the Canada Act 1982 received the Royal Assent on March 29, 1982 in London, it was not until the Queen came to Canada that the Constitution Act, 1982, its Canadian equivalent, was proclaimed by Letters patent as a statutory instrument by the Queen on her visit to Canada. |
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| | Canada: Constitutional Acts 1867-1982 |
| | The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect. | | | The enactments of the United Kingdom Parliament or the Parliament of Canada, and Orders in Council admitting territories, referred to in the footnotes, may be found in Appendix II to the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, and in the annual volumes of the statutes of Canada. | | | This consolidation contains the text of the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act, 1867), together with amendments made to it since its enactment, and the text of the Constitution Act, 1982, as amended by the Constitution Amendment Proclamation 1983. |
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| | The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect. | | | 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 of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom: | | | Amendments to the Constitution of Canada shall be made only in accordance with the authority contained in the Constitution of Canada. |
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| | Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court and final arbiter. | | | Canada's judiciary plays an important role in interpreting laws and has the power to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. | | | Canada's official national sports are ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer), however, hockey is considerably more a part of Canadian culture as it is a national pastime, and is by far the most popular spectator sport in the country. |
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| | Canada -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 |
| | Canada's new constitution also opened the way for native land claims that have changed the political appearance of N Canada and had effects elsewhere as well. | | | The two Canadas were made one province by the Act of Union (1841) and became known as Canada West and Canada East. | | | In 1993, Mulroney resigned and was succeeded by fellow Conservative Kim Campbell, who became (June, 1993) Canada's first woman prime minister. |
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| | Referendum - encyclopedia article about Referendum. |
| | Although the Constitution of Canada does not expressly require that amendments be approved by referendum some argue that, in light of the precedent set by the Charlottetown Accord referendum, this may have become an unwritten convention. | | | This may be the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. | | | Thus the direct vote that adopted the constitution of the modern Republic of Ireland is referred to as a 'plebiscite' while every subsequent such direct vote has been described as a 'referendum'. |
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| | Parliament of Canada - Open Encyclopedia |
| | According to Section 17 of the Constitution Act, 1867, Parliament consists of three components: the Sovereign, the Senate, and the House of Commons. | | | The Parliament of Canada was granted limited power to amend the Constitution by a British Act of Parliament in 1949, but it was not permitted to affect the powers of provincial governments, the official positions of the English and French languages, or the five-year term of Parliament. | | | The Parliament of Canada last requested the Parliament of the United Kingdom to enact a constitutional amendment in 1982, when the Canada Act 1982 was requested and passed. |
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| | Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The basic constitutional document is the Canada Act of 1982, which replaced the British North America Act of 1867 and gave Canada the right to amend its own constitution. | | | Canada’s new constitution also opened the way for native land claims that have changed the political appearance of N Canada and had effects elsewhere as well. | | | The Canada Act, passed by Great Britain, made possible the Constitution Act, 1982, which was passed in Canada. |
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| | Hexapedia - Constitutional history of Australia |
| | In the 1890s, two constitutional conventions were called, which ultimately adopted a constitution based on a combination of British, American and other models (monarchy and parliamentary government from Britain, federalism from the United States, the use of the referendum from Switzerland). | | | This constitution was then approved by the voters in each of the six colonies. | | | The next major constitutional change came about with the Act of the British Parliament known as the Statute of Westminster of 1931. |
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| | Maritimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Enshrined in the Constitution, this model was developed to ensure that no area of the country is able to exert undue influence in the Senate. | | | It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain. | | | Canada was formed only a year after free trade in the form of the Reciprocity Agreement had ended with the United States. |
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| | AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Canada: Repatriation of the Canadian Constitution |
| | The Constitution was patriated on April 17, 1982, without the consent of the Quebec legislature, but the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently ruled that the patriation process had respected Canada's laws and conventions, and that the Constitution, including the Constitution Act, 1982, was in force throughout Canada. | | | Consequently, when Canada officially ceased to be a British colony with passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, authority to amend the Constitution remained with the British Parliament. | | | In November 1981, after intensive negotiations at a First Ministers' conference, the federal government and all the provincial governments except the Parti Québécois government of Quebec, agreed on a package of constitutional amendments. |
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| | The Canadian government can be very confusing due to all the different types of legislature that the country has, but Canada mainly tries to stick to their constitution as much as possible. | | | This type of government was put in the core of the Canadian Constitution, which comes from the British North America Act of 1867. | | | The constitution states that the powers of government should be divided into three equal parts. |
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| | Dominion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dominion is the legal title conferred on Canada in the Constitution of Canada, namely the Constitution Act, 1867 (British North America Acts), and describes the resulting political union. | | | In 1928 Canada obtained the appointment of a British high commissioner in Ottawa, separating the administrative and diplomatic functions of the governor-general and ending the latter's anomalous role as the representative of the British government in relations between the two countries. | | | Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa (prior to becoming a republic and leaving the Commonwealth in 1961), with their large populations of European descent, were sometimes collectively referred to as the "White Dominions". |
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| | ipedia.com: Politics of Canada Article |
| | Canada is a constitutional monarchy (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. | | | An effect of this was that any amendments to Canada's constitution required the approval of the British Parliament. | | | Quebecers are usually prominent in the federal cabinet and, by law, must hold three of the nine positions on the Supreme Court of Canada. |
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| | Canada Act 1982 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Canada Act 1982 is an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament that severed virtually all remaining constitutional and legislative ties between the United Kingdom and Canada. | | | The Canada Act 1982 was signed into law by Her Majesty Elizabeth II Queen of Canada on a rainy April 17, 1982 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. | | | Canada's road to political self government came with the British North America Act 1867 (called in Canada the "Constitution Act, 1867"). |
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| | Canada in the Making - Constitutional History |
| | The passing of the Constitution Act, 1982, did not mean an end to the constitutional evolution of Canada. | | | The vote was in favour of a change in the constitution, and in 1997 the government of Newfoundland gained authority over all schools in the province. | | | This act excluded Québec from section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867. |
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| | Canada’s Constitution cannot be changed without the consent firstly of the Prime Minister, then his Cabinet, then his entire party in the House of Commons. | | | He often said he was "bringing the Constitution home to Canada". | | | He knew that he could make some fairly minor changes to Canada’s constitution that would forever consolidate the power in Ontario and Quebec and he further realized that the existing bunch of provincial Premiers were such dolts that he could easily trick them into helping him do it. |
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| | Québec and Constitutional Change |
| | From that day, as we know, Canada has had a "patriated" constitution to which is appended a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | | | The very "political" nature of that demand may be judged when we consider that across Canada even today, constituencies electing members of legislatures are not made up of equal bodies of voters. | | | The senator's proposal was quickly seconded by his colleague, Senator Damien Bouchard, who on June 21, 1944, made a stinging attack on the absurdity of "racial" battles in Canada. |
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| | Georgia (state) - encyclopedia article about Georgia (state). |
| | It became the fourth state after ratifying the United States Constitution Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest written national constitution still in force. | | | Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the Court of Appeals are elected statewide by the citizens in non-partisan elections to six-year terms. | | | State Judicial authority rests with the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, which have statewide authority. |
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