He entered the service of the Assem bly of the Province of Canada as a page in 1855, and retired from the service of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada as Chief Clerk of Votes and Proceedings in 1915. [...] I have still a vivid recollection of my indignation, the night of the election, at being parked with a neighbour while the rest of the family went out to look at the bulletin boards and see the fun. [...] THE C A N A D IA N. CONSTITUT ION The spirit to write what I have on constitutional matters came largely from Arthur Meighen, the hero of my boyhood and student days in the galleries of the House of Commons, the friend and teacher of my later years, the generous but exacting critic of my doctoral thesis. [...] It may have been a class discussion which revealed both a failure to realize what the “sover eignty” of a provincial Legislature (within the limits of subject and area defined by the British North America Act as interpreted by the highest Courts, and subject to the Dominion's power of disallow ance and its powers under section 93 of that Act and the corre sponding sections of the Manitoba, Sask [...] The founding of the first democratic socialist party in Canada, the Co-Operative Com monwealth Federation, had its chief intellectual inspiration in the work of the League for Social Reconstruction, a body of scholars and teachers, most of them young, at McGill and the University of Toronto.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- 1974.
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- 320.9/71
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Previously published essays Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- F67 1974eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Copyright 3
- Table of Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Introductory Notes on the Essays 12
- Eugene Alfred Forsey: An Introduction by Donald Creighton 20
- Part I: Crown and cabinet 40
- 1. Constitutional Monarchy and the Provinces 40
- 2. The Authority of the Government 51
- 3. The Crown and the Constitution 53
- 4. Appointment of Extra Senators under Section 26 of the British North America Act 69
- 5. Meetings of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, 1867-1882 79
- Part II: Parliament 92
- 6. Parliament’s Power to Advise 92
- 7. Constitutional Annus Mirabilis 103
- 8. Mr. King and Parliamentary Government 106
- 9. The Problem of “Minority” Government in Canada 128
- 10. Government Defeats in the Canadian House of Commons, 1867-1873 142
- 11. Constitutional Aspects of the Canadian Pipe Line Debate 147
- 12. Removal of Superior Court Judges 167
- 13. Fixed Dates for Election? 171
- Part III: Dominion and provinces 176
- 14. Dominion Status for the Provinces? 176
- 15. Canada and Alberta: The Revival of Dominion Control over the Provinces 196
- 16. Extension of the Life of Legislatures 224
- 17. The Constitutionality of the Official Languages Act 241
- 18. The Canadian Constitution and its Amendment 246
- Part IV: “French” and “English” 259
- 19. The British North American Act and Biculturalism 259
- 20. Canada: Two Nations or One? 266
- 21. Present Problems of Confederation: An English-Canadian View 288
- 22. Memorandum on the Associate States 303
- 23. Canada, 1967 307
- 24. Our Present Discontents 325
