Exposing a Bad Trick: Why Quebec’s Bill 96 Cannot Amend the Canadian Constitution

Section 159 of Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the offıcial and common language of Québec, purports to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, and therefore the Canadian Constitution, by introducing two new articles, “90Q.1” and 90Q.2”, respectively, providing that “Quebecers form a nation” and that “French is the only offıcial...

Henry VIII Clauses and the Constitution Stephen Armstrong

Sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867 reveal a formula for a governmental structure designed to protect individual liberty. These sections assign the authority to “make Laws” exclusively to legislatures. The separation of legislative power from executive power and the vestiture of legislative power in a representative institution...

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