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The Constitutional Project: The Quebec Resolutions
Original title:  Resolutions of the Québec Conference of 1864, with doodles by John A. Macdonald in 1866. Library and Archives Canada.

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Delegates at the Quebec conference drafted a document that provided the constitutional framework for confederation: the 72 resolutions. George BROWN played a central role:

[Brown] took a stand against an elected senate in the new federal parliament, as he had previously against the elective upper house introduced in the province of Canada, because of the problem of basing British responsible government on the confidence of two representative bodies, particularly if they were of different party complexion.”

 

To learn more about the 72 resolutions that came out of the Quebec conference, as well as the reorganization of political and judicial systems and the attitudes they inspired, please consult the list of biographies below:

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