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The 1937-38 Constitution case pitted the Alberta government of William
Aberhart and his Social Credit economic reform agenda against Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King and the federal Liberals. It was a test of the
British North America Act, signed in 1867, to determine whether there could
be flexibility to cover constitutional evolution, such as that proposed by
the Social Credit party.
It also was also a reflection of the drive of
William Aberhart, an important figure in Alberta's political past whose
influence in religious sectarianism and politics in western Canada enabled
him to head the world's first Social Credit government.
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