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  Sovereign Council
Sovereign Council In early NEW FRANCE a governing council was created, comprising the GOUVERNEUR (governor), the bishop and representatives ("syndics") of Québec, Trois-Rivières and Montréal.
The Sovereign Council, which in 1703 became the Superior Council, was comparable to the parlements of those provinces.
The council initially comprised the governor, the bishop, the INTENDANT and 5 councillors.
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 Intendant
He ensured that the king's decisions were implemented, appealed to the minister over difficulties with new policies and presented a detailed annual report on the colony.
New France's best-known intendants were Jean TALON, Gilles HOCQUART and François BIGOT.
Hocquart was intendant of New France from 1729-48, and he was generally regarded as a good administrator (courtesy Musée Historique de Vaudreuil).
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On the basis of this logic, Austin concluded, that a departure by a Sovereign from any law is within the domain of his authority, and the inferiors are under a legal obligation to obey the Sovereign.
France has a veto but its power is not the same as that of the United States.
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 The Sovereign Council
The entire population of New France in 1663 numbered less than twenty-five hundred people, a considerable proportion of whom were traders, officials, and priests.
In the matter of powers the Council was given by the edict of 1663 jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters under the laws and ordinances of the kingdom, its procedure in dealing with such matters to be modeled on that of the Parliament of Paris.
It was to receive and to register the royal decrees, thus giving them validity in New France, and it was also to be the supreme tribunal of the colony with authority to establish local courts subordinate to itself.
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 Exhibitions/Administration/The Sovereign Council
The Sovereign Council was a judicial body similar to those that were established in the French provinces from the end of the Middle Ages.
Like the other sovereign councils established in France to oversee Louis XIV's territorial conquests (Alsace, Artois, Roussillon, etc.), it operated according to the rules of the Coutume de Paris, although it was not possible to purchase a position as councillor and there were no lawyers.
The Council consisted of, in order of precedence: the Governor; the Bishop; the Intendant; the councillors, initially appointed jointly by the Governor and the Bishop, but after 1675 by the King alone; an attorney general; and a registrar.
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