Dispute With A Compromise

The Dominion of Canada was founded in 1867, which was an important political event and governing principle in Canada history. It is of great importance to understand today's Canada political characteristics and its development.The preface of this thesis introduces the status quo and the methods of the foundation of Canada confederation at home and abroad and brings forward the problems that my thesis intends to resolve.The main body of this thesis is divided into four parts:Part Ⅰ: Background. With the appearance of the new problems of economy and politics, the issue of confederation was brought forth, and then the movement for union was developed in British North America. The political crisis brought about the realization of the union. There were two plans on the question of union, i. e. the Great Coalition (composed of Upper Canada and Lower Canada plus a Maritime Union composed of the Lower Provinces, most likely including Newfoundland) and the Maritimes Union (only composed of Maritime provinces). The representatives from Province of Canada and the Maritime provinces debated the confederation blueprint in Charlottetown conference, Quebec conference and London conference successfully, and got into line in the end.Part Ⅱ: Disputes over the union. There appeared two kinds of different ideas on confederation in various provinces—the confederates and the opposition. This part deals with these views based on the clue of regions, and analyzes the reasons. The provinces, agreed or opposed, expressed concerns over economy, politics, military or religion, but finally they all thought much of the whole. They all saw that in the 1860s confederation is the tendency and agreed to confederate. Finally, Canada confederation was founded in 1867.Part Ⅲ. Debates on the future government. The pro-confederates discussed how to form the central government and how much authority it would be given. They put forward different propositions, such as whether to form a legislative union or a federal union; a monarchy or republican regime; the proposition of centralization; the constitution of the Senate and the House, and whether to found a strong confederation;...