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Example sentences for "federal union"

  • The authority of the Crown might be enhanced by the establishment of a Federal Union.

  • Whoever wishes to understand the relation of Federalism to the English Constitution and to English interests must give some attention to the nature of a Federal Union.

  • There must, in the second place, be found among the people of the countries which it is proposed to unite in Federal union, a very peculiar state of sentiment.

  • This is much to be regretted, but retrenchment was enforced by revenue shrinkages and the dislocation temporarily caused by federal union.

  • They agreed with the royal governors and with the Lords of Trade as to the urgent need for concentrating the military strength of the colonies, and they thought that this end could best be subserved by some kind of federal union.

  • To bring about a federal union on such terms was no easy matter; it was a task fitted to tax the greatest of statesmen at any time.

  • One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States.

  • The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States.

  • Defn: the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

  • History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak.

  • And after the French enemy had been removed, the assertion by parliament of its alleged right to tax the Americans threatened all the thirteen legislatures at once, and thus in fact drove the colonies into a kind of federal union.

  • The German language has a neat way of distinguishing between a loose confederation and a federal union.

  • Distinguish between the United States as a confederation and the United States as a federal union.

  • The Austro-Hungarian Empire is a federal union, differing alike in its origin and construction from the federal unions above mentioned.

  • The Empire of Germany is a federal union, differing from the United States and Switzerland in having an hereditary emperor as its head.

  • What he aimed at especially was to follow as closely as possible the fundamental principles of English parliamentary government, and to engraft them upon the general system of federal union.

  • So early as 1861 he had emphatically expressed himself on the floor of the assembly in favour of the main principles of just such a federal union as was initiated at Quebec.

  • A quarter of a century later Chief Justice Sewell of Quebec, also a Loyalist, addressed a letter to the father of the present Queen, the Duke of Kent, in which he urged a federal union of the isolated provinces.

  • The 13 American states, in forming a federal union, did not take the lowest common denominator of freedom; they took the highest, and elevated that.

  • Mr Macdonald and Mr Galt replied that their remedy was a Federal Union of all the British North American Provinces; local matters being committed to local bodies, and matters common to all to a General Legislature.

  • In 1864 he moved for a select committee of nineteen members to consider the prospects of federal union.

  • In 1864, a few weeks before George Brown in the Canadian House had moved for his select committee on federal union, Dr Charles Tupper proposed, in the legislature of Nova Scotia, a legislative union of the Maritime Provinces.

  • Galt refused, but when he subsequently entered the Cartier government it was on condition that the promotion of federal union should be embodied in the policy of the government.

  • In October the Lower Canadian members of the Opposition met in Montreal and declared for a federal union of the Canadas.

  • A federal union, it appears to me, cannot be entertained for Canada alone, but when agitated must include all British America.

  • The States of Europe will be forced, by pressure of circumstances, into some kind of federal union.

  • Such has been the happy outcome of the first attempt at federal union made by men of Teutonic descent.


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