Constitution Act

The Constitution Act is the name of several acts, notably:

  • The Act forming the original part of the Constitution of Australia
  • Several Acts forming part of the Constitution of Canada, such as,
    • The Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly called the British North America Act, 1867)
    • The Constitution Act, 1982
    • The Constitution Act (British Columbia)
  • Some laws in or formerly in the Constitution of New Zealand:
    • New Zealand Constitution Act 1846
    • New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
    • Constitution Act 1986
  • Niue Constitution Act

Famous quotes containing the words constitution and/or act:

    “The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “We all have—to put it as nicely as I can—our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terrible power that sometimes destroys us; but they don’t talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before—truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)