• Disallowance and reservation are historical constitutional powers in Canada that act as a mechanism to delay or overrule legislation passed by Parliament...
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  • Disallowance and reservation are historical constitutional powers that were instituted in several territories throughout the British Empire as a mechanism...
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    Forest, Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial Legislation (Ottawa: Department of Justice, 1955), pp. 5–9. La Forest, Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial...
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  • action Disallowance and reservation, a constitutional power in several Commonwealth nations Reservation (mixtape), a mixtape by Angel Haze "Reservations",...
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    Colony of New South Wales (category States and territories established in 1788)
    disallowance and reservation. Acts of the federal state, i.e. the Commonwealth of Australia, remain subject to power of disallowance and reservation by...
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  • jurisdictions. The federal government's quasi-imperial powers of disallowance and reservation, which Macdonald abused in his efforts to impose a centralised...
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  • terminated the powers of disallowance and reservation, which remain in the Constitution. There was also a bill of rights and a new amending formula. The...
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    provisions existed elsewhere in the British Empire, most notably disallowance and reservation in Canada, which fell into disuse in the 20th century. In 2023...
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    Trans-Appalachia created discontent between Britain and colonial land speculators and potential settlers. The proclamation and access to western lands was one of the...
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    extends the provisions regarding money votes, royal assent, reservation and disallowance, as established for the federal Parliament to the provincial...
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    four provinces: Ontario and Quebec, which had been split out from the Province of Canada, and the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The province...
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  • notwithstanding clause, Trudeau declined to remove the federal powers of disallowance and reservation from the draft Constitution. At the end of this period of negotiations...
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  • power "temporarily". Between 1931 and 1982, the federal government, on behalf of the House of Commons of Canada and the Senate, would issue an address...
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    Companion of the Order of Canada. La Forest, Gérard V. (1965). Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial Legislation. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Department...
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  • King's pleasure (or the Queen's pleasure), is a term of art in public law and in penal law. In public law, it refers to the indeterminate or undetermined...
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    Australia Act 1986 (category Australia and the Commonwealth of Nations)
    subject to disallowance and reservation by the monarch (s 8) – a power that, anomalously, remains for Commonwealth legislation (Constitution ss 59 and 60)....
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    government of the United Kingdom, and the subsequent repeal of The Publication of Statutes Act. Disallowance and reservation in Canada Gwyn 2011, p. 200. Swainson...
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  • government for assent or refusal, would have been abolished, and the federal power of disallowance, under which the federal government could overrule a provincial...
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  • privilege, and immunity recognised in common law (and sometimes in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the sovereign, and which...
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  • notwithstanding clause, Trudeau declined to remove the federal powers of disallowance and reservation from the draft Constitution. When it was introduced, Alan Borovoy...
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  • Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments. This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament...
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  • Cabinet) and the federal civil service (whom the Cabinet direct); it is corporately branded as the Government of Canada. There are over 100 departments and agencies...
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    Conference of 1864 (23 attendees), the Quebec Conference of 1864 (33 attendees), and the London Conference of 1866 (16 attendees), preceding Canadian Confederation...
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  • the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a constitutional provision that protects an individual's autonomy and personal legal rights from actions...
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  • Living tree doctrine (category Legal doctrines and principles)
    constitutional interpretation that says that a constitution is organic and must be read in a broad and progressive manner so as to adapt it to the changing times...
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    primary purpose of Question Period is to seek information from the Government and to call it to account for its actions." It is similar in form to question...
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    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (French: Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the Charter in Canada, is...
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    Parliament and government of Canada. (2) English and French are the official languages of New Brunswick and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges...
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    (French: Loi de 1870 sur le Manitoba) is an act of the Parliament of Canada, and part of the Constitution of Canada, that provided for the admission of Manitoba...
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    free elections, and parliamentary privilege. It also listed individual rights, including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and the right not...
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