[boukinot] CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 178 



us important a part in the operation of the constitutional machinery as 

 any statutes, which give at once flexibility and stability to the frame- 

 work and enable it to work as a rule with remarkable effectiveness, and 

 which cannot be rudely touched and broken without doing undeniable 

 injury to the whole fabric of government in the Dominion and its 

 provinces. 



