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:
“If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
—Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
“We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)