...statesman on the principles of colonial government — 'on ' any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony ' possessing a representative assembly, is, as a general rule, un' constitutional. It is a right of which the exercise is reserved * for extreme cases, in which necessity...

...that great country 1 '• Parliamentary legislation on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly,...necessity at once creates and justifies the exception."— Lord Olenelg. (Parl. Pap. 1839 (118.), p. 7.) ' 1 i 2 Viet. c. 67. ' 2 & 3 Viet. c. 26. from our own....

...appear to me conclusively tj forbid that course of proceeding. " First : Parliamentary legislation on any subject of exclusively internal concern, in...assembly, is as a general rule, unconstitutional. It is a light of which the exercise is reserved for extreme ca'es, in which necessity at once creates and justifies...

...in any Kritiih colony possessing a representative assembly, is as a general rule, unconstitulionrtl. It is a right of which the exercise is reserved for extreme ca'cs, in which ncctssity at once creates and justifies the exception. " But important as is Ihe question...

...declined to be a party to such arrangement, stating in his despatch that 'parliamentary legislation on any subject of exclusively internal concern, in...assembly, is, as a general rule, unconstitutional.' Thus left to deal with the question, the Canadian legislature found the same difficulty as before....

...authority for saying, that " Parliamentary legislation on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly...necessity at once creates and justifies the exception.'' Liberal as this doctrine reads at first, it contains within it the germs of disputes fatal to the connection...

...legislation," wrote Lord Glenelg, the colonial minister, " on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly...necessity at once creates and justifies the exception." 1 Never before had the rights of colonial selfgovernment been so plainly acknowledged. But another...

...statesman on the principles of colonial government — ' on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly,...necessity at once creates and justifies the exception.' * Having stated the modes in which the principal political power — that of legislation — is exercised...

...legislation," wrote Lord Glenelg, the colonial minister, " on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly...which necessity at once creates and justifies the exception."3 Never before had the rights of colonial self-government been so plainly acknowledged....

...legislation," wrote Lord Glenelg, the colonial minister, " on any subject of exclusively internal concern to any British colony possessing a representative assembly...necessity at once creates and justifies the exception." * Never before had the rights of colonial selfgovernment been so plainly acknowledged. But another...