 | Canada. Parliament - 1865 - 1054 pages
...governments and local legislatures, shall be conferred upon the General Government and Legislature. — We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which...if this Constitution is carried out, as it will be m 'I iii! detail in the Imperial Act to be passed if the colonies adopt the scheme, we will have in... | |
 | Canada. Parliament - 1865 - 1052 pages
...that groat source of weakness which has been the c:iuse of tho disruption of the United States. Wo have avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority,...if this Constitution is carried out, as it will be iu^full detail in tho Imperial Act to be passed if the colonies adopt tho scheme, wo will have in fact,... | |
 | 1885 - 474 pages
...explained the details of confederation to the VOL. v. w Legislature. ' We have thus avoided,' he said, ' that great source of weakness which has been the cause...avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority.' After an experience of seventeen years, it must be acknowledged that the Constitution has worked exceedingly... | |
 | John George Bourinot - 1884 - 814 pages
...4th ed., published by ordor of Congress, 1877. 2 Sir JA Macdonald : Conf. Deb., 1865, p. 33 : " We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which...the cause of the disruption of the United States. \\'e have avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority," etc. " generally all matters of a merely... | |
 | Sir John George Bourinot - 1888 - 258 pages
...Digest, 4th ed., published by order of Congress, 1877. * Sir JA Macdonald, Conf. Deb., 1865, p. 33 : " We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which...avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority," etc. 8 BNA Act, 1867, 8. 91. See appendix to this work. legislatures may exclusively make laws in relation... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1889 - 270 pages
...the general practice of federations the Dominion has "avoided," according to Sir JA Macdonald, " the great source of weakness which has been the cause of the disruption of the United States." The essential point of this opinion still finds supporters. '' In arranging this part of the constitution,"... | |
 | John George Bourinot - 1901 - 272 pages
...Bourinot's Can. Studies in Comp. Politics, 44-48. 2 Sir JA Macdonald, Conf. Deb., 1865, p. 33: "We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which...avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority," etc. Dominion parliament to make remedial laws under certain circumstances.1 The object of this provision... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1918 - 774 pages
...governments and local legislatures, shall be conferred upon the General Government and Legislature. We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which...be passed if the colonies adopt the scheme, we will haye in fact, as I said before, all the advantages of a legislative union under one administration,... | |
 | 1885 - 476 pages
...VOL. v. w Legislature. ' We have thus avoided,' he said, ' that great source of weakness which lias been the cause of the disruption of the United States...avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority.' After an experience of seventeen years, it must be acknowledged that the Constitution has worked exceedingly... | |
 | 1926 - 762 pages
...governments and local legislatures shall be conferred upon the general government and legi>lature. We have thus avoided that great source of weakness which has been the cause of the disruption of the L'nited States. \Ye have avoided all conflict of jurisdiction and authority, and if this constitution... | |
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... specifically and in detail, all the powers which are incident to sovereignty, but we have expressly declared that all subjects of general interest not distinctly and exclusively conferred upon the local governments and local legislatures, shall be... 
