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What are the details of the British North America Act?

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The act enumerated the powers of the provincial legislatures and gave the residual powers to the dominion; its interpretation by the privy council somewhat nullified this design by giving a very extended scope to the provincial power of "property and civil rights " and developing a doctrine of "emergency powers" to give the dominion the authority needed by a national government in time of war.

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