Constitutional references to God exist in the constitutions of a number of nations, most often in the preamble.A reference to God in a legal text is called invocatio dei ('invocation of God') if the text itself is proclaimed in the name of the deity. A reference to God in another context is called nominatio dei ('naming of God'). Such invocationes and nominationes dei are found notably in ...

External links. Constitutional Act of the Province of Lower Canada.Montreal: R. Armour. 1828. Statute, 31 Geo III c.31 (March 1791). A bill to repeal certain parts of an act, passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for Making More Effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America", and to make further provision for the …