The Life and Speeches of Hon. George Brown |
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... legislative programme . The attempt to maintain the old system under a new and attractive name was continued with varying success until the final rupture with Sir Charles Metcalfe , a few months after his arrival in Canada , by the ...
... legislative programme . The attempt to maintain the old system under a new and attractive name was continued with varying success until the final rupture with Sir Charles Metcalfe , a few months after his arrival in Canada , by the ...
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... legislative power and the fountain of administrative authority to a secondary place in the government of the country . Mr. Brown's advent to Canada at this juncture was , under the existing circumstances , a great accession to the ...
... legislative power and the fountain of administrative authority to a secondary place in the government of the country . Mr. Brown's advent to Canada at this juncture was , under the existing circumstances , a great accession to the ...
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... legislative work of the province . The Draper administration managed to obtain a bare majority , and maintained a ... legislators to give way . Every one of the charges brought against you are , in point of law , gross slanders , and I ...
... legislative work of the province . The Draper administration managed to obtain a bare majority , and maintained a ... legislators to give way . Every one of the charges brought against you are , in point of law , gross slanders , and I ...
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... legislative Act passed during the existence of the union provoked so keen a controversy or gave rise to so much violence and agitation . The loss of the election fifteen months previous to this time would seem to have embittered the ...
... legislative Act passed during the existence of the union provoked so keen a controversy or gave rise to so much violence and agitation . The loss of the election fifteen months previous to this time would seem to have embittered the ...
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... legislative measures affecting the body politic - and that when they fail to carry any such measures through Parliament , or when the opposition carries any vital measure not by them deemed to be demanded by the neces- " sities of the ...
... legislative measures affecting the body politic - and that when they fail to carry any such measures through Parliament , or when the opposition carries any vital measure not by them deemed to be demanded by the neces- " sities of the ...
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