As a former colony of the British Empire, Canada inherited the principle of legislative supremacy from the United Kingdom. This is explicit in the British North America Act of 1867, which states that Canada would have a constitution "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." The principle of legislative supremacy asserts that the legislative branch of government (i.e. the House of Commons and provincial legislatures) is the highest legal and political body of the land. There are no higher laws than those enacted by the legislature. Human and civil rights were the jurisdiction of the legislatures and the Canadian

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