Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1689851430

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-101704

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fonck, Leopold http://d-nb.info/gnd/116647019

Title:: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Edition:: 3. Aufl., Neudruck d. 2. Aufl., 7.-8. Tsd

Place of publication:: Innsbruck

Publisher:: Rauch

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 396 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erster Teil. Die Schule des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 43 ~ This vigorous protest induced the Duke of Buckingham in his reply of December 9, 1867, to promise that in view of the financial difficulties of the Colony no steps should be taken to insist on payment in respect of the year 1868, and the matter was for the moment shelved. But it was revived in 1869 by a dispatch of July 2, 1869,2 in which the Governor requested the Imperial Government to consider and adopt some general policy with regard to the South African territories and their administration. In reply, Lord Gran- ville in a dispatch of December 9 2 placed before the Governor two alternatives. He pointed out that the Governor had been unable to induce the Legislature to bring order into the finances of the country, while again their proposals for financial changes had not met with his approval. The Imperial Government were not willing to continue to bear the cost of the military defence of the Cape, and would with- draw one regiment in 1870-1 and another in 1871-2, leaving one regiment only for the protection of Simon’s Bay. The Governor was therefore asked to place before the Legislature the alternatives of placing more power in the hands of the Executive or of adopting the system of responsible govern- ment. On January 17, 1870,1 the Governor replied. He expressed very strongly the view that the present constitution was unsatisfactory, but he deprecated responsible government, which he deemed to be an absolute contradiction in terms. How could a ministry responsible to its own constituencies render obedience to the permanent power ? The issue between them might be shirked or postponed, but it must come. Responsible government he had always held to be applicable only to communities fast advancing to fitness for absolute independence, and he thought that the course of events in British North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Jamaica had gone very far to establish that view. He looked upon the country as entirely unsuited for indepen- dence, and he could not satisfy himself of the justice or * Parl. Pap., H. C. 181, 1870, p. 13. * Thbid., p. 14. * Ibid., p. 15. * Ibid., pp. 17, 18 seq.

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