This legislation, passed by the British Parliament, created Canada as a new, domestically self-governing federation, consisting of the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, on July 1, The British North America Act was the name used for two acts of the British Parliament passed in and to delegate self-government powers to the Dominion of Canada. Canada and the other British dominions achieved full independence only with the passage of the Statute of Westminster in The Statute granted Canada independence from British regulations and the freedom to pass, amend, and repeal laws within an autonomous legal system.
Full autonomy gave the government the independence it needed to build a legislative foundation upon which Canada still stands today. The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. Under America's first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries.
Executive Power. Legislative Power. Distribution of Legislative Powers. Revenues; Debts; Assets; Taxation. Miscellaneous Provisions.
Intercolonial Railway. Admission of Other Colonies. These documents set out sections 91 , 92 , 92A, and of the Canadian Constitution. Sections 91 and 92 set out the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
Section provides for free inter-provincial trade. Section 93 of the British North America Act lays down the constitutional framework of public education in Canada. It authorizes provincial legislatures to make laws related to education in their provinces but disallows laws that infringe upon the interests of certain groups.
Its impact is great. It is one of three key residuary powers in the Constitution Act, , together with the federal power of peace, order and good government and the provincial power over matters of a local or private nature in the province. The Charter is one part of the Canadian Constitution.
The Constitution is a set of laws containing the basic rules about how our country operates. For example, it states the powers of the federal, and provincial and territorial governments in Canada. There are 39 subsections to section 51, each of which describes a " head of power " under which the Parliament has the power to make laws.
The Commonwealth legislative power is limited to that granted in the Constitution. A federal government is a system of dividing up power between a central national government and local state governments that are connected to one another by the national government.
The 10th amendment of the Constitution, on the other hand, gave all other powers to the states. The purchase of Alaska in marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in , when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan coast, Russia had a keen interest in this region, which was rich in natural resources and lightly inhabited.
As the United States expanded westward in the early s, Americans soon found themselves in competition with Russian explorers and traders. Petersburg, however, lacked the financial resources to support major settlements or a military presence along the Pacific coast of North America and permanent Russian settlers in Alaska never numbered more than four hundred.
Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region. The looming U. The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, For three decades after its purchase the United States paid little attention to Alaska, which was governed under military, naval, or Treasury rule or, at times, no visible rule at all.
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