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Representative Government in Canada
It has been said that the character of a government, like that of an
individual, is shaped by the two primary forces of heredity and environment.
Thus, while the government of Canada came into existence on July 1, 1867,
and its features were, to a material degree, determined by the British North
America Act, the greater part of the government was profoundly affected by
British law, traditions, and habits of mind, as well as by precept and example
in the United States. Such influences have never ceased to operate during the
past eighty-one years.
It is a convenient, but far from accurate, statement to say that Canada has
a written constitution. For the written British North America Act and its
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