“It has always seemed to me that a somewhat close parallel could be drawn between the government by the English of Acadia and the government by the Americans of the Philippine Islands”
Riddell, William Renwick. “The First English Court in (The Present) Canada on Its Criminal Side.” Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, vol. 8, no. 1, 1917, pp. 8–15. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1133706.
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