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British North America Act
British North America Act law passed by the British Parliament in 1867 that provided for the unification of the Canadian provinces into the dominion of Canada. Until 1982 the act also functioned as the constitution of Canada. The act enumerated the powers of the provincial legislatures and gave the... Read more
Canada
Canada , independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. It is bounded on the E by the Atlantic Ocean, ... Read more
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861, Canadian journalist and insurgent leader, b. Scotland; grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King . Emigrating to Upper Canada in 1820, he published (1824-34), first at Queenston, then at York (later Toronto), his noted Colonial Advocate. In it he vigorously att... Read more
Transcona
Transcona , city, SE Man., Canada. It is a suburb of Winnipeg. ... Read more
Meech Lake Accord
Meech Lake Accord set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act . The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, include a guarantee of Quebec's special status as a "distinct society" and a commitment to Canada's linguistic dualit... Read more
Joe Clark
Joe Clark (Charles Joseph Clark), 1939-, prime minister of Canada (1979-80), b. High River, Alta. He entered the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta in 1972 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative party in 1976. In the 1979 elections he led his party to victory and briefly replaced Pie... Read more
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau) , 1919-2000, prime minister of Canada (1968-79, 1980-84), b. Montreal. He attended the Univ. of Montreal, Harvard, the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and the London School of Economics. A lawyer and law professor ... Read more
1774 Quebec Act
1774 Quebec Act passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. The Thirteen Colo... Read more
Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces or Maritimes, Canada, term applied to Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island , which before the formation of the Canadian confederation (1867) were politically distinct from Canada proper. ... Read more
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937, Canadian political leader, prime minister during World War I, b. Grand Pré, N.S. Called to the bar in 1878, he won a reputation as a constitutional lawyer. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1896 and in 1901 succeeded Sir Charles Tupper as leader of ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Constitution of Canada"

Constitution
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...of a society are built: A constitution may be defined as an organization...distinct from the frame of the constitution, are the rules by which...including Japan, India, Canada, and Germany. It is also...constitutions. In its ideal form, a constitution emanates from the consent...
Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...Constitutional Act of 1982, Canada's constitution has been under the Canadian...1867 to 1982, the dominion of Canada's constitution was subject to the control...acting upon the request of Canada's bicameral Parliament...
Canada, Health Care Coverage for Older People
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging ...COVERAGE FOR OLDER PEOPLE Canada is a parliamentary democracy...unchanged after the Canadian constitution was repatriated from...1982. At this time the Constitution Act was proclaimed...example, through the Canada Health Act) and assisting...
Canada Act
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Canada Act also called the Constitutional Act of 1982, which made Canada a fully sovereign state...moved to create an amended constitution. The final document, agreed...s attempts to oppose the Canada Act ended in Dec., 1982...
Sir John Alexander Macdonald
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...discuss military arrangements for Canada in the light of the outcome...disturbed by Fenian raids on Canada from American soil. He presided...written basis of the Canadian constitution. The final act bore all the...of Macdonald's influence. Canada was to be a monarchy in North...
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...province. That year he also proposed a new constitution for Canada, independent of the British Parliament, and...17, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act, 1982 (see Canada Act ), which gave Canada complete independence...
James Madison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...he led the forces for the Constitution against the opposition of...first 10 amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of Rights...conservative nature of the Constitution and its founders, Madison...hungry for the conquest of Canada and for free expansion...
Beneficial Association
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...in the United States and Canada in the early 1800s. The...organized through its charter, constitution, and bylaws. Charter The...the association is formed. Constitution and Bylaws The constitution of a benevolent association...
René Lévesque
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...creation of a union for Radio-Canada's producers. When that goal...accomplished he left Radio-Canada a committed neo-nationalist...critic of the existing Canadian constitution. He advocated, as a minimum...arrangement with the rest of Canada; that is, political independence...
Guyana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...States, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, and Great Britain are the...Guyana is governed under the constitution of 1980. The president...was made. Under the 1952 constitution, elections were won (1953...Communist and suspended the constitution. Subsequently the PPP split...

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Canadian Constitution, patriation of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Canadian Constitution, patriation of The ‘bringing’ home of the Constitution to Canada from Britain, whose Parliament...rejecting changes to the Canadian constitution. The issue was raised during the...
Canada
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...x2013;8 in Lower Canada. A third constitution, the Union Act...attempts. The fourth constitution, the British North...again Upper and Lower Canada, and joining them...federal system. This constitution has proved the most...
Quebec
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...of Quebec's role within Canada. A hitherto backward and...the failure of the federal Constitution in 1982 ( Canadian Constitution , patriation of) and of the...backwardness relative to the rest of Canada and the potential costs of...
Canadian Indians
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...changes in the lives of all of Canada's native peoples. Throughout...stating their land claims in the Constitution Act ( Canadian Constitution , patriation of). In 1983...the 1990s, government aid to Canada's 912 Indian groups grew...
Indian Intermarriage
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...into the tribe: the Cherokee constitution of 1839, for example, granted...to intermarried whites. In Canada, intermarriages produced a...population of the United States and Canada also reached its nadir of some...mixed); the 1996 Census of Canada enumerated some 800,000 Native...
United States of America
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...trade treaty was signed with Canada in 1989, and in 1993 the NORTH...region comprising the USA , Canada, and Mexico. The economy...NATIVE AMERICANS in what are now Canada and the USA . European colonization...country was set out in the Constitution of 1787, which established...
Desegregation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1896), holding that the Constitution was not violated by laws...Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first case...the Supreme Court said the Constitution required neither white schools...endorsed the idea that the Constitution required the elimination...
Ableman v. Booth
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...disappeared, presumably going to Canada. Marshal Ableman then arrested...state subordination to the Constitution and to the Supreme Court...obligated "to support this Constitution. And no power is more clearly...cases arising under such Constitution and laws." After the decision...
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1973, he tried to cope with Canada's economic difficulties caused...galvanized him into trying to solve Canada's (and thus Quebec's...17 April 1982 (see Canadian Constitution , Patriation of). However...Increasingly unpopular in Canada from 1981, he resigned on...
Métis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...An umbrella term used in Canada to describe and define the...xE9;tis Nation in Western Canada appeared in 1936, while...Aboriginal people in the Canadian Constitution . Since then, the M...land claims, native (Canada)

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God still in Constitution (Canada).(movement to have a reference to the supremacy of God removed from Canada's constitution is tabled)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 7/1/1999; 662 words ; ...be removed from the preamble of Canada's constitution. NDP leader Alexa McDonough rebuked...drafted by the Humanist League of Canada (one of whose former presidents...that in the statement "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that...
Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. (Book Reviews: Native Studies).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. Toronto: University...interpretations of the Canadian constitution. Each chapter begins...aspects of the Canadian constitution, and the relationship between Canada as a state and the aboriginal...
The Myth of the Sacred: The Charter, the Courts, and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada.(Politics and Government)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...and the Politics of the Constitution in Canada. Montreal and Kingston...and Group Status"; "The Constitution and Rational Choice Theory...and "The Culture of Constitution-Making in Canada." Each section corresponds...
The constitution's preamble.(Canada)(David M. Brown says judges are ignoring the Constitution's preamble)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 12/1/2005; 615 words ; ...says judges are ignoring the Constitution's preamble. The preamble states that Canada was founded on principles...collision of worldviews. Canada's judges see the law as...far and away dominant in Canada. Mr. Brown may well be...
Change Called for in Canada Constitution
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/8/2003; 590 words ; ...Labrador government called Thursday for changing Canada's constitution to give the province more control over the industry...for joint management of ocean fishing. Under the Constitution, the federal government has sole jurisdiction...
Grand chief seeks change via Canada's constitution.(World)(Briefing/The Americas)(Q&A)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/30/1996; ; 638 words ; ...without changing the supreme law, the constitution of Canada. My position is that our people...recognized through an amendment to the constitution. Once again, we want to use the constitution of Canada to guarantee that the treaties between...
Canada's Third Constitution: The Supreme Court and "unwritten principles"
Magazine article from: Inroads; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; We ALL KNOW WHEN CANADA GOT ITS ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION. On July 1, 1867...into a federal country. Canada's First Constitution still sets out the form...probably don't know about Canada's Third Constitution. Its tenth anniversary...
Youths write a constitution and charter of rights for Catholics. (Canada).
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times; 10/6/2002; 700+ words ; ...is now on her way to Thailand with Canada World Youth, led the workshop...possible futures." Preamble for a new constitution: All human are born free and equal...the well-being of the church in Canada. The global constituent assembly...
Canada's secret constitution
Magazine article from: Inroads; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...represent a second, external constitution for Canada. Reduced to their essence...their interests written into Canada's Constitution Act of 1982; sovereigntists...if virtually secret, constitution for Canada. Norms NAFTA's first...
Canada's secret constitution: the implications of North America's grand bargain.(Left/Right)
Magazine article from: Inroads: A Journal of Opinion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...represent a second, external constitution for Canada. Reduced to their essence...their interests written into Canada's Constitution Act of 1982; sovereigntists...if virtually secret, constitution for Canada. Norms NAFTA's first...