# REDIRECT Constitution of Canada

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The Constitution of Canada ( La Constitution du Canada in French ) is the supreme law in Canada ; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions and conventions.

The composition of the Constitution of Canada is defined in subsection 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, formerly The British North America Act, 1867 ), and any amendments to these documents.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

The Canada Act / Constitution Act included the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

* Canada in the Making-a comprehensive history of the Canadian Constitution with digitized primary sources.

fr: Constitution du Canada

# REDIRECT Constitution of Canada

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

The emancipation of slaves would give the South more voters and cause the end of the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution in terms of Congressional apportionment.

Turnismo would be endorsed in the Constitution of 1876 and the Pact of Pardo Palace ( 1885 ).

A painting depicting negotiations that would lead to the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867 | British North America Act, 1867

In Missouri v. Holland, the Supreme Court ruled that the power to make treaties under the U. S. Constitution is a power separate from the other enumerated powers of the federal government, and hence the federal government can use treaties to legislate in areas which would otherwise fall within the exclusive authority of the states.

However, because of the Reid v. Covert decision, the U. S. adds a reservation to the text of every treaty that says, in effect, that the U. S. intends to abide by the treaty, but if the treaty is found to be in violation of the Constitution, then the U. S. legally can't abide by the treaty since the U. S. signature would be ultra vires.

As the governor said, Delaware had been the first state to embrace the Union by ratifying the Constitution and would be the last to leave it.

The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.

David was enlisted by the Society of Friends of the Constitution, the body that would eventually form the Jacobins, to enshrine this symbolic event.

Under the Constitution of 1791, France would function as a constitutional monarchy.

The preamble to thr 2006 Constitution repeated from the 1969 Constitution states that " Her Majesty's Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.

On July 31, 1919, the Weimarer Constitution would be accepted in its form by the Weimarer National Congress.

Moreover, Cleveland believed that altering Gould's franchise would violate the Contract Clause of the federal Constitution.

Modern sociology largely originated from this movement and Hume's philosophical concepts that directly influenced James Madison ( and thus the U. S. Constitution ) and when popularised by Dugald Stewart, would be the basis of classical liberalism.

Under the Constitution of 1791, France would function as a constitutional monarchy with Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead.

Circulated only in New York at the time, they would later be considered among the most important polemics in support of the Constitution.

He, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers, a series of 85 newspaper articles published in New York to explain how the proposed Constitution would work, mainly by responding to criticisms from anti-federalists.

If Virginia, the most populous state at the time, did not ratify the Constitution, the new national government would likely not succeed.

Madison initially proposed that the amendments would be incorporated into the body of the Constitution.

Akayev scheduled an October 1994 referendum, overwhelmingly approved by voters, that proposed two amendments to the Constitution, one that would allow the Constitution to be amended by means of a referendum, and the other creating a new bicameral parliament called the Jogorku Keņesh.

That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

Based on the theory that the lower courts are creations not of the Constitution but of Congress, and that Congress therefore has wide power in defining and restricting their jurisdiction, the act forbids issuance of injunctions to sustain anti-union contracts of employment, to prevent ceasing or refusing to perform any work or remain in any relation of employment, or to restrain acts generally constituting component parts of strikes, boycotts, and picketing.

Article III of the Constitution states that judges remain in office " during good behavior ", implying that Congress may remove a judge for bad behavior via impeachment and conviction.

The PNG Constitution expresses the wish for " traditional villages and communities to remain as viable units of Papua New Guinean society ", and for active steps to be taken in their preservation.

The first clause of the Article provides that debts contracted prior to the adoption of the Constitution remain valid, as they were under the Articles of Confederation.

The original Constitution had no provision for selecting such a replacement, so the office of Vice President would remain vacant until the beginning of the next Presidential and Vice Presidential terms.

All existing laws, including the 1812 Constitution, would remain in force until a new constitution for Mexico was written.

The KMT intended this Constitution to remain in effect until the country had been pacified and the people sufficiently " educated " to participate in democratic government.

Furthermore, the current Constitution explicitly states before the amendments implemented on Taiwan, " To meet the requisites of the nation prior to national unification ...", in direct opposition to the pan-green position that Taiwan must remain separated from the mainland.

However, the reason it had gone unamended was the same reason the Constitution left it to remain separate from the rest of the EU: anti-nuclear sentiment among the European electorate, which may unnecessarily turn voters against the treaty.

Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, 14: " They could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it, or to remain in it.

: The Government established by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified ; and all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished.

Macon opposed the Constitution and spent his four decades in Congress making sure the national government would remain weak.

However, Marcos, being barred by the Constitution to seek a third term, declared martial law on September 21, 1972, and later abolished the existing 1935 Constitution, thereby allowing him to remain in office.

Until the elections of 2007 the town's mayor was the only one in the democratic Kingdom of Spain to remain in office from the times of the Francoist dictatorship ( which legally disappeared as the current Spanish Constitution of 1978 was passed )

The situation did not remain stable for long, when the Shan Federal Movement, started by Nyaung Shwe Sawbwa Sao Shwe Thaik ( the first President of independent Burma 1948-52 ) and aspiring to a ' loose ' federation, was seen as a separatist movement insisting on the government honouring the right to secession in 10 years provided for by the 1947 Constitution.

The 1997 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Hindustani, and there is discussion about establishing it as the " national language ", though English and Hindustani would remain official.

The Mohawk people, in accordance with the Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy, asked the women, the caretakers of the land and " progenitors of the nation ", whether or not the arsenal which the warriors had amassed should remain.

Maharashtra will always remain proud of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ( 1891 – 1956 ), the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and the creator of a social and political awareness among the Scheduled Castes of India.

The Charter would have also terminated the powers of disallowance and reservation, which remain in the Constitution.

Kentucky Governor Beriah Magoffin proposed that slave states like Kentucky should conform to the US Constitution, and remain in the Union.

Commodore Bainimarama, who once again became acting Head of State, stated that the Constitution would remain in effect, but said on 17 December that " as a last resort ," it could be abrogated if no other way could be found to ensure immunity from prosecution for soldiers involved in the takeover.

Section 8 deals with the question of retention of existing citizenship: all persons who were citizens of Fiji immediately prior to the adoption of this Constitution remain citizens.

Section 139 declares that all judges in office before the commencement of the Constitution remain in office under it.