Act of Quebec

The Acte of Quebec was the second Constitution of the history of the Canada after the royal Proclamation of 1763. It accepted the royal Sanction on June 22nd 1774. It was promulgated by the British government eager to prevent that the movement of agitation in progress in the Thirteen colonies was not spread among recently conquered “Canadians”. It granted to the province of Quebec a vast territory which follows the valley of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence of the Labrador to the Big lakes, the circumference of those as well as the valley of the Ohio. It restored the rights of the nobility seigneuriale, abolishes the Serment of the test which excluded the catholic from the Public office, brought back the use of the Civil law French, but preserved the criminal Droit English, less severe.

This constitution gave advantage to the two groups which had influence on the population: clergy and lords so that they push the inhabitants to support the British against the Americans.

The Act of Quebec had the effect discounted in the province but accentuated dissatisfaction and indignation at the Thirteen colonies and was thus an indirect cause of the American Révolution. They regarded this act (law) as a “intolerable law”.

The Act of Quebec was repealed mainly in 1791, to be replaced by the constitutional Acte.

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  • Act of Quebec

  • Canada in becoming - History of the Constitution
  • Act of Quebec in the Canadian Encyclopedia


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