... state, but power to amend the act was still vested in the British Parliament. "The BNA Act is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament and can therefore be directly amended only by that Parliament." Gradually, however, executive power shifted from the British governor general to the Canadian prime minister and his cabinet. Canada's sheer size made it, by the end of the 19th ... the United States and somewhat later it did so with France and Japan. In 1931 the legal supremacy of the British Parliament over the dominions was terminated by the Statute of Westminster. In 1949 Canada abolished...

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... ", had become the rallying cry of New England throughout the conquest of Montreal in 1760.v When the Continental Army tried to enroll French-speaking residents in 1774, most Canadian veterans, having served with the French troops, could still clearly recall the decades of hostility. They concluded that the rebels, who had campaigned to conquer their territory, insulted ... right of electing members of its executive council and royally-appointed its governor powers.xiv The act outraged the Massachusetts residents, and colonists outside Massachusetts were anxious about whether the parliamen...

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