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Topic: List of Canadian constitutional documents


  
  Constitution of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The composition of the Constitution of Canada is defined in section 52(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 as consisting of the Canada Act 1982 (including the Constitution Act, 1982), all acts and orders referred to in the schedule (including the Constitution Act, 1867), and any amendments to these documents.
The proclamation was considered as the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774 when the British government passed the Quebec Act of 1774 which set out many procedures of governance in the area of Quebec.
Further, Part I of this Act is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which outlines the civil rights and liberties of every citizen in Canada, such as freedom of expression, of religion, of mobility, etc. Part II deals with the rights of Canada's Aboriginal peoples.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Constitution   (1277 words)

  
 The Solon Law Archive
constitutional act to compare against the Canadian one: Much more is defined in the powers of the Commonwealth of Australia Parliament, duties are more specifically defined, and they had the common sense to include an amending formula for their constitution in the first place....
The Constitution of France, otherwise known as the Constitution of the Fifth Republic is here in French.
This is the constitution that succeeded the Soviet Constitution.
www.solon.org   (734 words)

  
 Thomson Nelson - Political Science -Canadian Politics on the Web/The Constitution of Canada
Constitution Act, 1985 (Representation) permitted future changes to the distribution of seats for Parliament to be done by ordinary statute.
Constitution Amendment, 1997 (Quebec) permitted the province to replace the denominational school boards with ones organized on linguistic lines.
Constitution Amendment 2001 (Newfoundland and Labrador) officially changed the name of the Province of Newfoundland to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
polisci.nelson.com /constitution.html   (1179 words)

  
 Canada in the Making - Specific Events & Topics
The Canadian Constitution is not just made up of written documents: it is also shaped by many conventions that have evolved over the years.
A constitution is generally defined as a set of rules that establish both the structure and the fundamental principles of the government in a nation or other territory.
Canadian constitutional conventions: the marriage of law and politics.
www.canadiana.org /citm/specifique/written_e.html   (512 words)

  
 Canadian Genealogy and History Links - History
Canadian Confederation The territorial evolution of Canada, path to confederation, raids and skirmishes, historical documents, Canadian confederation bibliography.
Canadian Constitutional Documents Documents that have to do with the development of Canada's constitution, as well as that of the country.
Newfoundland and Labrador Constitutional Documents This reference collection is being assembled to provide ready access to the important documents which illustrate the evolution of Newfoundland and Labrador as a British colony, self-governing dominion, and province of Canada.
www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/history.html   (3736 words)

  
 Canadian Constitutional Documents
These documents are provided as a service to Canadians and others interested in Canada, who regularly travel the net and who are curious in regards to, "what the fuss is all about." This "collection" is merely here for reference only.
Set conditions that the Canadian government was to allow Hudson's Bay Company to trade without hinderance, and to pay them compensation, plus allow the Company the right to claim blocks of land of specific sizes for their own use under certain conditions and in certain areas.
Constitution Act 1867, which excludes Quebec from the section relating to the organization of schools in the province (section 93).
www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English   (2858 words)

  
 Constitution Of Canada Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The composition of the Constitution of Canada is defined in section 52(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 as consisting of the Canada Act (including the Constitution Act, 1982), all acts and orders referred to in the schedule (including the Constitution Act, 1867), and any amendments to these documents.
(see list of Canadian constitutional documents) The Supreme Court held that the list is not exhaustive and includes unwritten doctrines as well
Further, Part I of this Act is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which outlines the civil rights and liberties of every citizen in Canada, such as freedom of speech, of religion, of mobility, etc. Part II deals with the rights of Canada's Aboriginal peoples.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Constitution_of_Canada   (1472 words)

  
 Bora Laskin Law Library -Finding Legal Information on the Web -Constitutional Law
As a result, all constitutional documents during that time period have the force of law.
There are other documents that relate to Canada's development as a country, such as those predating Confederation, which do not hold the force of law, as each act was superseded by the other until the passing and proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1867.
As the Constitution is the foundation of the United States, constitutional law deals with some of the fundamental relationships within American society.
www.law-lib.utoronto.ca /resources/topic/const.htm   (711 words)

  
 Canadian History On The Web : : Historical Documents
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM) Research Collections now have full text, searchable online versions of selected titles available at their Early Canadiana Online Website is an incredible source for full-text digitized versions of thousands fo published primary historical materials (in both French and English) pertaining to Canada (from the aforementioned CIHM).
In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project is quite an incredible resource for genealogists and social historians alike.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Online This is an impressive digital transcription of Ruben Gold Thwaites' multi-volume english translation of the Jesuit Relations, courtesy of Le Moyne College, the Jesuit College of Central New York, and Ste Marie Among the Iroquois.
info.wlu.ca /~wwwhist/faculty/sneylan/hisdoc.html   (755 words)

  
 Guide to Canadian Political Science Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Users are also encouraged to refer to "Canadian Government Information" for sources published by the Government of Canada.
All the print materials listed are available from the National Library of Canada, which has unique collections of interest to political science researchers.
Provided by the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS)/ Conseil international d'études canadiennes (CIEC), this database provides a listing of books, theses, and whole serial issues on Canada or Canadians, published outside Canada and received for "review" in the Secretariat office of the ICCS, including a "Political Science" section.
www.nlc-bnc.ca /2/25/index-e.html   (1239 words)

  
 Canadian Constitutional Documents
There are other documents that relate to Canada's development as a country, but they do not hold the force of law as each act was superseded by the other until the passing and proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1867.
Below you will find a list of some of these constitutional documents as well as a comprehensive table culled from Appendix II of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, and updated to include the most recent constitutional enactments.
The last act to amend the Canadian constitution to be enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament.
www.efc.ca /pages/law/cons/Constitutions/Canada/English/cons.html   (1216 words)

  
 Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
The first undergraduate Canadian Studies programme was established at Mount Allison University in 1969 with an endowment from Edgar and Dorothy Davidson of Montreal; the first director was George F.G. Stanley (1907-2002), a distinguished historian and author, and designer of the country's maple leaf flag.
Anita Cannon's Canadian Government Information on the Internet is a comprehensive gateway to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal government Web sites, while Iza Laponce's Canadian Politics on the Internet and Bibliography of Canadian Politics and Society provide invaluable access to a wide spectrum of electronic and print sources in the field.
However, these forces are also serving to keep Canadian Studies a vibrant discipline, both at home and abroad, and are providing Canadian writers, artists, academics, journalists, and foreign observers with abundant opportunities for discourse on the evolving nature of this still enigmatic northern land.
www.iccs-ciec.ca /blackwell.html   (8517 words)

  
 Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online
The case itself involved one of the longest civil trials in Canadian history, resulting in a trial decision which defeated the Git'Ksan/Wet'su'weton claim to Aboriginal title and jurisdiction in their traditional lands.
At issue was his constitutional right to fish for food and whether the licencing requirement was an invidious intrustion upon the exercise of that right.
The actual wording of the formal documents in this case did not absolve the Crown, whose officials had created them; it was their conduct which was found to amount to "equitable fraud" and a breach of fiduciary obligation.
www.bloorstreet.com /300block/ablawleg.htm   (5873 words)

  
 Browse Documents
The documents are all in PDF format and cover a broad range of policy areas both in Canada and internationally.
Because many of the documents transcend categories, users may find it easier to locate specific documents using the search function.
Users should be aware that these documents are reproduced here exclusively for research purposes, and should take note of our sources and copyright policy.
www.iigr.ca /browse_documents.php   (215 words)

  
 Constitution Finder
Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet.
We would appreciate both your direction to internet sites where other constitutions may be found and your contribution of the texts of constitutions not yet accessible on the Internet.
We seek not only constitutions in effect, and their amendments, but also constitutions which have been superseded as well as drafts not yet acted upon or else abandoned.
confinder.richmond.edu   (105 words)

  
 Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia - Find out what happened on this day in Canadian history.
Canadian Portraits - This site has links to information about the government, women, men, prime ministers, and employment.
Canadian Studies -A Guide to the Sources (essay with embedded links and webliography at end).
edtech.kennesaw.edu /web/canada.html   (308 words)

  
 DDFilecatcher - the easy to use disk catalogue software that will list files to text, print whole lists of files and ...
DDFileCatcher lists either full filepaths or folders followed by a list of files in the folder.
Copy the list of filenames to the Clipboard or save the list to a file: after you get a list of filenames, also called "file paths" as text, you can copy the list to the Clipboard for pasting into documents.
software list folder contents file list to text, list of files on a boot disk print list of files.
www.ddfilecatcher.com   (674 words)

  
 By Subject - Humanities - Electronic Texts & Documents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789
Documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage.
www.lib.washington.edu /subject/Humanities/dr/eltxt.html   (7701 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of Acts of Parliament of Canada Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The following is a List of Acts of Parliament of Canada passed since 1867.
List of Acts of Parliament of Canada Article - ipedia.com
Canadian Department of Justice - Consolidated Statutes and Regulations
www.ipedia.com /list_of_acts_of_parliament_of_canada.html   (119 words)

  
 Canadian Consititutional Documents Copyleft Notice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Canadian Consititutional Documents is a free publication operated as a service by William F. Maton for the benefit of the Internet community as a whole.
By using the Canadian Constitutional Documents you are agreeing to the conditions of the following copyleft notice.
This rendering of the Canadian Consititutional Documents, including its SGML-HTML formatting, cannot be sold in any medium, including, but not limited to electronic, CD-ROM, or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of William F. Maton.
www.efc.ca /pages/law/cons/Constitutions/Canada/English/copyright.html   (147 words)

  
 Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet: World Constitutions/Comparative Constitutional Law
Constitutions of Francophone Countries (Agence pour la Francophonie; constitutions in French; see also Association des Cours Constitutionnelles ayant en Partage l'Usage du Français which includes databases for searching the full texts of constitutional and legislative documents, administrative rules, jurisprudence, and doctrine of 36 countries by keyword, country name, and fields)
Constitution of October 4, 1958 (in English with text updated following the constitutional amendment of 8 july 1999 modifying articles 3 and 4 and inserting a (new) article 53-2; Assemblee nationale et Ministere des Affaires etrangeres, sept.1999)
Russian Constitutional Court: Constitutionality of the Russian Federation Law on "Cultural Objects Removed to the U.S.S.R. as a Result of World War II and Located in the Territory of the Russian Federation", No.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /~llou/conlaw.html   (2425 words)

  
 Constitutions, treaties, and official declarations around the world
The International Constitutional Law Project has a good collection of constitutional documents.
Constitution of the autonomous island of Ngazidja, 2002
Draft proposal for the Constitutional Reconstruction of the FRY
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /const.htm   (367 words)

  
 Douglas College Library - Web Resources in History and Area Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Canadian newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator, kept a collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles taken from various Canadian newspapers during the Second World War.
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography covers the years 1000 - 1920 and provides biographical information about persons who died during this period, or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
"Primary sources in Canadian history from the arrival of the first Europeans to the late 19th century, with particular emphasis on literature, women's history, Native studies, and the history of French Canada." An excellent resource.
library.douglas.bc.ca /resource_hist.html   (1291 words)

  
 Canadian Human Rights Web Sites. Virtual Human Rights Research Library. Human Rights Documentation Centre.
Constitutional Law - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canadian Judicial Council -- Conseil canadien de la magistrature
Canadian Study of Parliament Group (CSPG) = Le Groupe canadien d’étude des questions parlementaires (GCEQP)
www.uottawa.ca /hrrec/links/sitescan_e.html   (353 words)

  
 JURIST Canada - Reference Desk
Here you'll find connections to key documents on the Canadian constitutional and legal structure, Canadian government sites, courts, commissions, legal associations, public legal services, lawyer directories and legal publishers.
Canadian Association of Law Teachers / Association canadienne des professeurs de droit
Canadian Society for the Advancement of Legal Technology [CSALT]
jurist.law.utoronto.ca /ref_desk.htm   (200 words)

  
 Canadian History and Studies
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Canadian Newspapers and Media Sources (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canadian government)
Canadians' Views on History Education (Ipsos Reid, September 10, 2001)
www2.tntech.edu /history/canada.html   (1023 words)

  
 Canada: Law and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canadian Access and Privacy Association/Association canadienne d'access a l'information
Canadian Law List 2000: Directory of Canadian Lawyers
Constitutions and Constitutional Studies: Primary Documents; Political Database of the Americas
www.library.ubc.ca /poli/cpwebl.html   (220 words)

  
 America's War Against Terrorism, 9/11
Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 (Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries
List of government agencies to be transferred or abolished in the new Department of Homeland Security
All publications listed in Statistical Universe are on microfiche in the Documents Center
www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/usterror.html   (7199 words)

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