System of Government for Canada: Difference between revisions

Here is the first stone of our new government; but as the various parts of the reform are intended to be used as material for the requests, than you owe to yourselves, and to your children, for the sovereign and the Parliament, I will always assign them, by precaution, an isolated worthy place, so that with one glance, the eye can see them for the service.

<blockquote>''The reestablishment of the law of [[Wikipedia:Habeas corpus|Habeas Corpus]]; [[Wikipedia:Jury trial|trials by jury]], and from the powers of the governor, the subtraction [of the ability] to arbitrarily dispose of the members of the [[Wikipedia:Legislative Council|Legislative Council]], the [[Wikipedia:Chief Justice|Chief Justice]], the subordinate judges, and even the simple legal professionals, finally to imprison the subjects on his personal authority, and on his own procedures; here are the first and most invaluable emanations of the constitution of England that we have to reclaim for the civil resurrection of province.(1)''</blockquote>