The equal authenticity rule (French: règle d’égale autorité) is a rule of judicial interpretation developed by Canadian courts as a way of interpreting...

describe detention in prison for an indefinite length of time; a judge may rule that a person be "detained at His Majesty's pleasure" for serious offences...

Constitutionalism Constitutional economics Mixed government Parliamentary sovereignty Rule according to higher law Responsible government However, the independence...

Constitution Indigenous self-government Pith and substance Double aspect Equal authenticity rule Paramountcy Living tree Implied Bill of Rights Interjurisdictional...

under charges of corruption and abuse of power. In order to restore the rule of law, the UK government took direct control of the government of the territory...

therefore be claimed by Members individually or by the House collectively. The rule for when parliamentary privilege applies is that it cannot exceed the powers...

deferred more to the monarch. The previous oath required the monarch to rule based on "the laws and customs ... granted by the Kings of England". The...

amendments from Britain. In September 1981, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Patriation Reference that provincial consent was not legally necessary...

established rules and procedures. The individuals involved must be "constituted as a public institution qua Parliament (on the basis of some rules and under...

Canada's anti-French measures. The act established a single parliament with an equal number of seats for each region, now called Canada East and Canada West...