Click here to view the original document (PDF). Clause Suggested by Professor F.R. Scott to be Added to the B.N.A. Act providing a method of Amendment. Sec. 148. 1. Any provisions of this Act except these enumerated in subsection 2 hereunder may be amended by a maj- ority vote of the members of both houses of the Dominion Parliament assembled in joint session. 2. The following provisions of this Act, namely, Section 51 Section 51a, Section 92, ss. 1 Section 92, ss. 12, Section 92, ss. 13 except those portions… Read more Clause Suggested by Professor F. R. Scott to be Added to the B.N.A. Act providing a method of Amendment →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). FORGOTTEN AMENDMENTS TO THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION It may come as a surprise to some students of the Canadian constitution to learn that one paragraph of the preamble and no less than eight sections of the original B.N.A. Act (1867) have been totally repealed, while three other sections have been partially repealed. These changes are quite apart from those made by the later B.N.A. Acts of 1871, 1875, 1886, 1907, 1915, 1916, 1930 and 1940, which are usually considered to be the formal… Read more Forgotten Amendments to the Canadian Constitution →
Document Information Date: 1981-02-06 By: Canada (Parliament) Citation: Canada, Parliament, Briefs and Submissions to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada, 32nd Parl, 1st Sess (7 January 1981). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Why Is There No Text? This document has not yet been transcribed. Help us out by transcribing the PDF into a text file and emailing it to pd@theccf.ca. Your help will make PrimaryDocuments.ca the most complete word-searchable electronic repository of documents relating to the Canadian constitution. For more information consult our… Read more Submission of Rod Sykes and Ray Speaker to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada (7 January 1981) →
Document Information Date: 1865 By: British North-American Association Citation: British North-American Association, Confederation of the British North-American Provinces being Extracts from Speeches… (London: F. Algar, 1865). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Why Is There No Text? This document has not yet been transcribed. Help us out by transcribing the PDF into a text file and emailing it to pd@theccf.ca. Your help will make PrimaryDocuments.ca the most complete word-searchable electronic repository of documents relating to the Canadian constitution. For more information consult our Be a Contributor page.
Document Information Date: 1864-10-11 – 1864-10-25 By: Hewitt Bernard Citation: Joseph Pope (ed), Confederation: Being a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Documents Bearing on the British North America Act (Toronto: Carswell Co. Ltd., 1895) at 53-88. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Notes: New formatting of the text and the endnotes are from Charles Dumais, The Quebec Resolutions: Including Several Never-Published Preliminary Drafts by George Brown and John A. Macdonald, and a Collection of all Previously-Published Primary Documents Relating to the Conference (CCF, 2021). There is, however, one… Read more Secretary Hewitt Bernard’s Report of Discussions at Quebec (11-25 October 1864) →