Title: Charters of our freedom.
Authors: Trotter, Reginald George,
Date: 1947
Publisher: Ginn,
Physical description: vi, 138 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: Nature of freedom -- Magna Carta and the origin of our liberties -- Parliament becomes the guardian of British liberty; Extracts from the Bill of Rights, 1689; Supremacy of Parliament and government by the people -- British liberties spread overseas in the early British Empire; Ordinance for Virginia, 1621; Mayflower compact, 1620 -- Problem of Colonial self-government solved in the later British Empire; Lord Durham's report, 1839; Responsible government reconciles Colonial self government and the United Empire -- Canada becomes the first Dominion; Canada's birth as a Nation; British North America Act, 1867; Canada's National growth as a Dominion -- A Commonwealth of Nations develops in the British Empire; Statute of Westminster, 1931 -- British Commonwealth tested by world crisis; Declaration by the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth, 1944; British way of freedom -- British Commonwealth and the United Nations; Nations Unite; Atlantic Charter, 1941; Canada in the British Commonwealth and in the World -- A note on the Arms of Canada
Subject headings (LCSH): Constitutional history--Canada.; Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.; Imperial federation.