Disallowance and reservation are historical constitutional powers that were instituted in several territories throughout the British Empire as a mechanism...

Disallowance and reservation are historical constitutional powers in Canada that act as a mechanism to delay or overrule legislation passed by Parliament...

Forest, Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial Legislation (Ottawa: Department of Justice, 1955), pp. 5–9. La Forest, Disallowance and Reservation of Provincial...

action Disallowance and reservation, a constitutional power in several Commonwealth nations Reservation (mixtape), a mixtape by Angel Haze "Reservations",...

disallowance and reservation. Acts of the federal state, i.e. the Commonwealth of Australia, remain subject to power of disallowance and reservation by...

Commonwealth realms, Lesotho, Eswatini, Brunei, and other monarchies, such as Spain, the Netherlands, and Oman. In realms where the monarch is represented...

jurisdictions. The federal government's quasi-imperial powers of disallowance and reservation, which Macdonald abused in his efforts to impose a centralised...

privilege, and immunity recognized in common law (and sometimes in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the sovereign, and which...

government of the United Kingdom, and the subsequent repeal of The Publication of Statutes Act. Disallowance and reservation in Canada Gwyn 2011, p. 200. Swainson...

terminated the powers of disallowance and reservation, which remain in the Constitution. There was also a bill of rights and a new amending formula. The...

United Kingdom, parliamentary privilege allows members of the House of Lords and House of Commons to speak freely during ordinary parliamentary proceedings...

Conference of 1864 (23 attendees), the Quebec Conference of 1864 (33 attendees), and the London Conference of 1866 (16 attendees), preceding Canadian Confederation...

the United Kingdom and one of the enactments which make up the Constitution of Canada. It was enacted at the request of the Senate and House of Commons...

provisions existed elsewhere in the British Empire, most notably disallowance and reservation in Canada, which fell into disuse in the 20th century. In 2023...

executive, which includes ministers of the Crown (together in the Cabinet) and the federal civil service (whom the Cabinet direct); it is alternatively...

Trans-Appalachia created discontent between Britain and colonial land speculators and potential settlers. The proclamation and access to western lands was one of the...

typically the executive and legislative branches. It is contrasted with the separation of powers found in presidential, semi-presidential and dualistic parliamentary...

independent, and sovereign states. Its modified versions are now domestic law in Australia and Canada; it has been repealed in New Zealand and implicitly...

government for assent or refusal, would have been abolished, and the federal power of disallowance, under which the federal government could overrule a provincial...

government, becoming the new premier. No modern governor general has disallowed a bill, though provincial lieutenant governors have. Peter Hogg, a constitutional...

components of parliament – the sovereign (or vice-regal representative) and the legislative houses – acting together to enact legislation. Parliamentary...

and French merchants, and issue police measures. The council was also to create a system of lower courts in Québec, Montréal, and Trois-Rivières, and...

Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal. It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new...

primary purpose of Question Period is to seek information from the Government and to call it to account for its actions." It is similar in form to question...

extends the provisions regarding money votes, royal assent, reservation and disallowance, as established for the federal Parliament to the provincial...

legislature) conflicts with an earlier one, the later Act takes precedence and the conflicting parts of the earlier Act become legally inoperable. This...

Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") is the section of the Constitution of Canada that lists what the Charter calls "fundamental...

Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments. This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament...

considerable power over the provinces, as was demonstrated under the power of disallowance, which gave the federal government the ability to reject provincial laws...

Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms contains guaranteed equality rights. As part of the Constitution of Canada, the section prohibits...