Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten

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Identifikator:: 1737995603

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-113493

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985

Title:: Principes d'économie politique

Edition:: 25 éd.

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Sirey

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IV, 702 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Livre I. La production

Collection:: Economics Books

398 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV future expenditure but really as a hoard. On the side of the Government ! it was replied that the system was perfectly legitimate, and that any other would merely be a continuation beyond the appropriate time of the old system of book- keeping, and would prevent Parliament making any adequate provision for the necessities which were plainly looming before it. The matter was raised in the Courts by the Government of New South Wales in connexion with appropriations thus made to the credit of trust funds for defence and harbours, which were not intended to be expended in the year. New South Wales claimed that this was wrong and diminished unfairly- the balance due to the state : the High Court? was quite clear that the Constitution permitted the Common- wealth to debit against the states all appropriations made by the Parliament lawfully, whether money had been dis- bursed on the ground of such appropriation or not, and whether the authority to disburse was one on which the Executive could act in that year or not. It was clear that they considered that the Commonwealth Government had gone to needless trouble in this creation of trust funds. The question of the Braddon clause became more and more important as the time drew near when its operation would determine. It was felt that to leave the states at the mercy of the Commonwealth would never do, and various schemes were mooted at the eleven conferences which took place between 1901 and 1909 between the state ministers and on some occasions Commonwealth ministers. It was proposed by Sir George Turner, in 1904,% in reply to a resolu- tion of the State Premiers adopted in 1904 at Sydney, to take over the state debts, in return for the right to use the surplus revenue and the retention of the gross railway 1 Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, 1908, pp. 11798 (Mr. Glynn), 11814 (Mr. Irvine). *7C. LR. 179. 2 (if. the same question discussed in Queensland Parliamentary Debates, i910, pp. 1463 seq., in connexion with the question of the legitimacy of a transfer of £50,000 to a trust fund for the University. ' Victoria Parl. Pavp.. 1904. No. 37.

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