Parliamentary Procedure And Practice In The Dominion Of Canada

"Though mainly a book of practice, it is, however, by no means a mere epitome of rules of procedure. Enlarging upon the example of Sir Erskine May, Mr. Bourinot outlines the whole political system of the Dominion; and within the wide field thus surveyed, there is much of the deepest interest to students and reformers of parliamentary institutions at home."--A. H. B. Constable, The Juridical Review 4 (1893) 273. "The object which the author has had constantly in view...is to give such a summary of the rules and principles which guide the practice and proceedings of the Parliament of Canada as will assist the parliamentarian and all others who may be concerned in the working of our legislative system. (...) It is, moreover, been the writer's aim, not only to explain as fully as possible the rules and usages adopted in Canada, but also to give such copious references to the best authorities...as will enable the reader to compare Canadian with British procedure." --Preface, xi. Sir John George Bourinot [1836-1902] founded the Evening Reporter with Joseph C. Crosskill in 1860 and was a founding member and honorary secretary of the Royal Society of Canada. He wrote many distinguished books on Canadian political history. Two of them, How Canada is Governed (1895) and Canada Under British Rule, 1760-1900 (1900), were standard references for decades. Thomas Barnard Flint [1847-1919] was a lawyer and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was assistant clerk for the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887-1891. In 1902 he was named Clerk of the House of Commons and remained in that position until 1918.

Excerpt from Parliamentary Procedure and Practice in the Dominion of Canada Although the adoption of the new rules was most severely contested no occasion has so far arisen, since their coming into force, for action upon them. Probably the mere fact of the existence of the powers conferred by these rules will accomplish all that their authors desired. The valuable historical introduction contained in the previous editions though both instructive and interesting has been greatly condensed and many portions re-written, such parts only being retained as may throw light rather upon Canadian parliamentary usages than upon the general constitutional history of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... I. Explanatory.--The procedure in Parliament in the matter of passing public bills has like other parts of the parliamentary system been a subject of change. In early days statutes came into being in a different way. The Commons adopted a petition to the king. These were entered on the rolls of parliament with the King's answer Three Kinds Of Bills. 489 chap, xv. annexed. At the end of each parliament the judges drew up these records into the form of statutes. This practice being found incompatible with the proper concurrence of parliament and matters being frequently found in the Statutes which the legislators had not asked for, remonstrances against this system resulted in the important change according to which bills were introduced in the form of complete statutes and received the assent of the king in the form in which they had been agreed to by the houses of parliament. The constitutional form of legislating by bill and statute, agreed to in parliament undoubtedly had its origin and its sanction in the reign of Henry vi (a). Bills are of three kinds, public bills, private bills and bills of a mixed character, styled "hybrid bills" which, though of a public nature, affect private rights and are dealt with in some respects as private bills. Private bills are treated of in a separate chapter, as the procedure in connection with them differs in material respects from that of public bills. Public bills may be introduced by members of the ministry as government measures when they are for purposes of procedure placed on the government orders after their first reading. Other public bills are those introduced by members of parliament, not in the administration, and these, for purposes of procedure, are after a first reading placed in the...