 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 418 pages
...restraints which England imposed upon the commerce of these colonies were copied from the Spanish system. Since the close of the American war, it has not been...elected by the inhabitants. The only exception to * There is one British dependency, viz. British Guiana, which seems at first sight not to fall into... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 408 pages
...restraints which England imposed upon the commerce of these colonies were copied from the Spanish system. Since the close of the American war, it has not been...elected by the inhabitants. The only exception to • There is one British dependency, viz. British Guiana, which seems at first sight not to fall into... | |
 | Law - 1842 - 536 pages
...of independence allowed to colonies. " Since the close of the American war," continues Mr. Lewis, " it has not been the policy of England to vest any...the inhabitants. The only exception to this uniform course of policy is furnished by the Canadian provinces, whose subordinate government was partly vested... | |
 | Charles Bowyer Adderley Baron Norton - Great Britain - 1869 - 440 pages
...connecting it with so incongruous a presidency. Sir C. Lewis, writing about thirty years ago, observes, " Since the close of the American war it " has not been...vest any " portion of the legislative power of the subordi" nate government of a dependency in a body " elected by the inhabitants. The only partial "... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1891 - 468 pages
...with the Crown for legislative purposes. were copied from the Spanish system. VSince the close CHAR n. of the American war, it has not been the policy of...a dependency in a body elected by the inhabitants l._± The only exception to this uniform course of policy is furnished by the Canadian provinces, whose... | |
 | William Henry Parr Greswell - Canada - 1898 - 310 pages
...accession of Queen Victoria. Sir GC Lewis wrote in 1841 that since the close of the American war it had not been the policy of England to vest any portion of the Legislative power of the subordinate or Colonial government in a body elected by its inhabitants.1 The only partial exception, he remarked,... | |
 | SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, BART. - 1901 - 448 pages
...subsequent to the date of Lewis's volume. The x GOVERNMENT OF DEPENDENCIES author wrote (Chap. II., Sec. 2): "Since the close of the American war, it has not been...dependency in a body elected by the inhabitants." To-day Canada and Australia are selflegislative and self-governing; and the autonomy they enjoy is... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1912 - 432 pages
...of governing the colonies. " Since the close of the American War," wrote Sir George Cornewall Lewis, "it has not been the policy of England to vest any...dependency in a body elected by the inhabitants. The only partial exception is in the Canadian provinces". 1 In the third period—that of the mid-nineteenth... | |
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Since the close of the American war, it has not been the policy of England to vest any portion of the legislative power of the subordinate government of a dependency in a body elected by the inhabitants. The only exception to * There is one British dependency,... 