 | Sir John George Bourinot - Canada - 1888 - 258 pages
...from the Quebec resolutions, Can. Com. J. (1865), 203. The preamble of the BNA Act, 1867, declares, " with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom."— Sec. 9. " The executive government and authority is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Connecticut - 1889 - 688 pages
...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...similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." ters naturally and conveniently falling within their defined jurisdiction, while each government is... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Crawford Munro - Canada - 1889 - 440 pages
...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...similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom : And whereas such a Union would conduce to the welfare of the Provinces and promote the Interests... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - History - 1889 - 464 pages
...that the Provinces of the present Dominion have expressed their desire to be united into one Dominion "with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." If preambles were intended to express the truth, for the word " Kingdom " ought to have been substituted... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 470 pages
...preamble of the British North America Act, 1867, sets forth that the provinces are " federally united," with a constitution "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." Mr. Dicey has said with some truth in his excellent treatise on the " Law of the Constitution,"^) that... | |
 | William Houston - Canada - 1891 - 372 pages
...Brunswick2 have expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with...similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom :3 And whereas such a Union would conduce to the welfare of the Provinces and promote the interests... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1892 - 522 pages
...in the preamble that the provinces " expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom.'! Elsewhere in the act there are provisions for vesting the executive authority and government in the... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - Canada - 1894 - 604 pages
...Confederation Act states the design to be, to create a federal union of the provinces under one Dominion, with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom. And the Canadian constitution is so framed. This is also the design and intention in regard to the... | |
 | Joseph Pope - 1895 - 352 pages
...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...similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom : And whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the Interests,... | |
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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... 
