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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1029401462

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-178646

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Author:: Kaff, Siegmund http://d-nb.info/gnd/138991537

Title:: Der Brotwucher

Place of publication:: Wien & Leipzig

Publisher:: Perles

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 80 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP. V] TREATY RELATIONS 1155 Australian Colonies should be accorded the treaty power and given the status of neutral powers under the same Crown as the United Kingdom. The substance of their recommendations ! was as follows :— VICTORIA [11. Neutrality of the Colonies in War 13. Tt has been proposed to establish a Council of the Empire, whose advice must be taken before war was declared. But this measure is so foreign to the genius and traditions of the British Constitution, and presupposes so large an aban- donment of its functions by the House of Commons, that we dismiss it from consideration. There remains, however, we think, more than one method by which the anomaly of the present system may be cured. . . . 19. The Colony of Victoria, for example, possesses a separate Parliament, Government, and distinguishing flag ; a separate naval and military establishment. All the publi appointments are made by the Local Government. The only officer commissioned from England who exercises authority within its limits is the Queen’s Representative ; and in the Ionian Islands, while they were admittedly a Sovereign State, the Queen’s Representative was appointed in the same manner. The single function of a Sovereign State, as understood in International Law, which the Colony does not exercise or possess, is the power of contracting obligations with other states. The want of this power alone distinguishes her position from that of states undoubtedly sovereign. 20. If the Queen were authorized by the Imperial Parlia- ment to concede to the greater Colonies the right to make treaties, it is contended that they would fulfil the conditions constituting a Sovereign State in as full and perfect a sense as any of the smaller states cited by public jurists to illustrate this rule of limited responsibility. And the notable conces- sion to the interest of peace and humanity made in our own day by the Great Powers with respect to privateers and to merchant shipping renders it probable that they would not, on any inadequate grounds, refuse to recognize such states as falling under the rule. * Parl. Pap., 1870, Sess. 2, ii. 247; cf. contra Higinbotham, Debates, x. 690 seq. Messrs. Kerferd, G. Berry, and Gavan Duffy all signed this part of the report.

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