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Excerpt from The Administration of the Old Regime in Canada: A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Law of McGill University for the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law Within certain limits, the introduction of the political forms and institutions of Europe into America, illustrates the tendencies that were then dominant in the older continent. It is easy, for instance, to trace in the constitutions of the United States, the conceptions of kingly power and the relations of parliament thereto, that were prevalent during the reign of George the Third, while the absolutism of Louis Quatorze, is nowhere more apparent than in the paternal government that was established in New France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.