Canadian subjects did not expect to be so soon called upon to resist similar unconstitutional encroachments and dilapidations, yet very recently the indisputable privileges of the Assembly have been again violated by the payment of the public servants,... Petition from Lower Canada, with Explanatory Remarks - Page 9by Québec (Province). Legislature. Legislative Assembly - 1835 - 40 pagesFull view - About this book
| Egerton Ryerson - Canada - 1837 - 94 pages
...dissolution of the constitution, for the consequences of which it cannot answer," and modestly declares, " that the people of the old colonies, now the United...executive usurpation than the people of this province." Now, Sirs, how does it appear that the waste lands of the Crown are the property of the Canadas ? Did... | |
| Robert Christie - Québec (Province) - 1853 - 554 pages
...Commons of Lower Canada a right previously recognized, without conferring any new privileges, Your Majesty's Canadian subjects did not expect to be so...United States of North America, however much they were agitated by attempts at unconstitutional taxation, had much less to complain of on the score of executive... | |
| Robert Christie - Québec (Province) - 1866 - 566 pages
...the payment of the public servants, without the sanction or cognizance of the only body authoribed to give such sanction. " That the people of the old colonies, now the United States of North Americo, however much they were agitated by attempts at unconssitutional taxation, had much less to... | |
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