Excerpt from The Historical Significance of the Plains of Abraham: Address Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Hamilton, April 27th, 1908 The Quebec Act was very differently received by the two classes of the population which it affected - the English and the French Canadians. By the English people it was dis approved because of its concessions to the Roman Catholic religion; and because it permitted the introduction of the civil law of France. In the words of a petition presented to the Lords and Commons from His ...
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Excerpt from The Historical Significance of the Plains of Abraham: Address Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Hamilton, April 27th, 1908 The Quebec Act was very differently received by the two classes of the population which it affected - the English and the French Canadians. By the English people it was dis approved because of its concessions to the Roman Catholic religion; and because it permitted the introduction of the civil law of France. In the words of a petition presented to the Lords and Commons from His Majesty's loyal and dutiful and ancient subjects, settled in the Province of Quebec, it was said, The Quebec Act deprives His Majesty's ancient subjects of all their rights and franchises, destroys the Habeas Corpus Act and the inestimable privilege of trial by jury, the only security against the finality of a corrupt judge, and gave unlimited powers to the governor-in-council to alter the crim inal laws. By the French Canadian the Act was accepted with the greatest cordiality for the very opposite reasons. It gave him religious equality and the status of citizenship; and these were for the moment all he desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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