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Document Information Date: 1902 By: Lord Henry Thring Citation: Lord Henry Thring, Practical Legislation: The Composition and Language of Acts of Parliament and Business Documents (London: John Murray, 1902). Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). (p. 34) […] In the Home Rule Bill of 1886, entitled Irish Government Act, 1886, a good example will be found of the compression into a few sentences, at the beginning of the Bill, of the whole principle of the measure. Section 1 declared, On and after the appointed day there… Read more Lord Henry Thring, Practical Legislation (1902) →
Document Information Date: 1888-02-28 By: Canada (Parliament) Citation: Canada, Senate Debates, 6th Parl, 2nd Sess, 1888 at 55-75. 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: 1880 By: Samuel James Watson Citation: Samuel James Watson, The Powers of Canadian Parliaments (Toronto: Carswell & Co., 1880). 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: 1867-02-28 By: UK (House of Commons) Citation: UK, HC, “(Lords)—[Bill 52.]—Second Reading“, vol 185 (1867), cols 1164-1196. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (Hansard UK — External Site). (Lords)— [BILL 52.]—SECOND READING. Order for Second Reading read. MR. ADDERLEY Sir, I rise to move the second reading of a Bill for the union in one Dominion, of the Canadas, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. What I have to ask the House to do is to give their consent to the proposal of the representa-… Read more UK, House of Commons, “(Lords)—[Bill 52.]—Second Reading,” [British North America] (28 February 1867) →
Document Information Date: 1867-02-19 By: UK (House of Lords) Citation: UK, HL, “Second Reading“, vol 185 (1867), cols 557-82. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (Hansard UK — External Site). SECOND READING Order of the Day for the Second Reading read, THE EARL OF CARNARVON said: In laving before jour Lordships the details of one of the largest and most important measures which for many years it has been the duty of any Colonial Minister in this country to submit to Parliament, I must unaffectedly ask for the… Read more UK, House of Lords, “Second Reading,” (19 February 1867) →
Document Information Date: 1865-06-29 By: United Kingdom (Parliament) Citation: An Act to remove Doubts as to the Validity of Colonial Laws, UK, 1865, c 63. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (LEGISLATION.GOV.UK — External Site). Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 1865 CHAPTER 63 An Act to remove Doubts as to the Validity of Colonial Laws. [29th June 1865] WHEREAS Doubts have been entertained respecting the Validity of divers Laws enacted or purporting to have been enacted by the Legislatures of certain of Her Majesty’s Colonies, and respecting… Read more Colonial Laws Validity Act, UK, 1865 →
Document Information Date: 1865-03-13 By: Province of Canada (Parliament) Citation: Province of Canada, Parliament, Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North America Provinces, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, 1865 at 962-1032. Other formats: Click here to view the original document (PDF). Note: All endnotes come from our recent publication, Charles Dumais & Michael Scott (ed.), The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada (CCF, 2022). Click here to view the rest of the Confederation Debates. John A. Macdonald [Kingston, Attorney-General West]—When the House was about to… Read more Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British North America Provinces, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, (13 March 1865) →