LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cooperative Federalism, Ultra Vires, Interjurisdictional Immunity
19 Apr 2016
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A constitution is the fundamental law of a political system, because all other laws must conform to the. British conquest, the royal proclamation (1763), and the settlement of canada introduced: introduction of english common law and statutes, a system of courts and legislature modelled on english institutions. Constitutional act (1791-1840), upper canada: newly arrived english-speaking loyalist refugees had refused to adopt the quebec seigneurial system of land tenure, or the french civil law system: separate the english-speaking settlements from the french-speaking territory as administrative. Leading to the ascend of the parti canadien in lower canada, leading to armed rebellions in 1837 and. 1838: key goals for the rebels were to have responsible government and, for many, to terminate prejudicial dominance of the english minority over the french majority. The act of union, following the rapport of durham (1841-1866) . Upper canada, with its british and protestant majority, was growing more rapidly than lower canada,
