Canada under British Rule, Sir John George Bourinot [phonics reader .txt] 📗

and appropriation bills to the
house of representatives,
requesting the omission or
amendment of any provision
therein, but it is optional
for the house to make such
omissions or amendments.

No such provision. If bills, other than money
bills,
have twice been passed by the
house of representatives and
twice been rejected by the
senate or passed by that body
with amendments to which the
house of representatives will
not agree, the governor-general
may dissolve the two houses
simultaneously; and if, after
the new election
they continue to disagree,
the governor-general may convene
a joint sitting of the members
of the two houses, who shall
deliberate and vote upon the
bill, which can only become
law if passed by an absolute
majority of the members sitting
and voting.

_Legislative Powers of the _Legislative Powers of the
Parliament of the Dominion_. Parliament of the
Commonwealth_.

Respective powers of the federal The Legislative powers of the
parliament and provincial federal parliament are alone
legislatures are enumerated and enumerated, and the states
defined in the constitution; the expressly retain all the powers
residuum of power rests with the vested in them by their
central government in relation respective constitutions at the
to all matters not coming within establishment of the
the classes of subjects by the commonwealth as to matters not
British North America act of specified as being within the
1867 assigned exclusively to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
legislatures. federal parliament.

_The Provinces._ _The States._

Legislatures may alter provincial Constitutions may be altered
constitutions except as under the authority of the
regards the office of lieutenant parliaments thereof.
-governor.

Lieutenant-governors are appointed The constitution of each state
by the governor-general-in-council, continues (subject to the
and removable by constitution) as at the
him within five years only for establishment of the
cause assigned and communicated commonwealth, or as at the
by message to the two admission or establishment
houses of parliament. of the states, as the case
may be, until altered in
accordance with the