<P> Section 133 establishes English and French as the official languages of the Parliament of Canada and the Parliament of Quebec . No provision was made for the official languages of other government bodies . </P> <P> This part has only one section, which obligates the federal government to construct a railway uniting all the four original provinces . </P> <P> Section 146 allows the federal government to negotiate the entry of new provinces into the Union without the need to seek the permission of the existing provinces . Section 147 establishes that Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland would have 4 senators each if they were to join Confederation . </P> <P> Aside from the theory of the Implied Bill of Rights, there is no actual written bill of rights in the Constitution Act, 1867 . Still, there are narrow constitutional rights scattered throughout the document . Hogg has referred to them as the "small bill of rights", though the Supreme Court in Greater Montreal Protestant School Board v. Quebec (1989) disliked that characterization in that rights in the Constitution Act, 1867 should not be interpreted as liberally as rights in the Charter . The rights Hogg identifies include language rights . There are also denominational school rights under section 93 (reaffirmed by section 29 of the Charter), notwithstanding provincial jurisdiction over education in Canada . Section 99 establishes a right for judges to serve unless removed by the legislature . Democratic rights include the rule that Parliament and the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec must sit at least once a year under sections 20 and 86, and there must be a federal election at least once every five years under section 50 . These are repeated in section 4 and section 5 of the Charter and section 20 of the Constitution Act, 1867 has been repealed . The Constitution Act, 1867 also guarantees representation by population . Finally, section 121 allows for people to carry goods across provincial borders at no charge, and section 125 exempts government from paying most taxes . </P>

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