Entstehung und Bedeutung der Preußischen Städteordnung

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1885646178

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-253324

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Entstehung und Bedeutung der Preußischen Städteordnung

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Dürr

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: VI, 154 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Dritter Abschnitt. Die preußischen Städte im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: Vernichtung städtischer Freiheit

Collection:: Economics Books

JHAP. 1V] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 189 which was given to the Governor, for he could thus exercise a moderating influence over the strong spirit of partyism which might exist at any particular moment. But, on the other hand, the Government of New Zealand of the day were of opinion that whatever advantages that position of moderating influence and power conferred were more than counterbalanced by the effect that was produced in creating a political position on the part of the Governor which tended to the suspicion or rather the imputation of partisan feeling against him. It was not the fact that much want of con- fidence had been felt with regard to the personal qualifications or impartiality of the Governor himself, but the party, which was disappointed by his refusal, had launched imputations of partiality and partisanship against the Governor, and the Government of New Zealand thought that the Prime Ministers in the Colonies should be given the same position as the Prime Minister in England, that is to say, that the Governor should, unless there was some very extraordinary cause for interference, as a matter of course take the advice of his ministers for the time being as to the question of the dissolution of Parliament. Sir Graham Berry, who was a representative of Victoria, thought that the principle con- tended for by Sir F. Dillon Bell was right ; that is to say, that a dissolution should be granted as a matter of course and not as a matter of favour, and that it should not be a personal matter on the part of the Governor, but a constitutional function, which he would exercise under advice exactly in the same way as he exercised all other functions. Mr. Service, also a representative of Victoria, dissented entirely from Sir Graham Berry’s view, and expressed doubt as to whether the Queen granted a dissolution whenever asked for. Sir John Downer, on behalf of South Australia, thought that it was most undesirable to alter the existing custom, and he suggested that the practice in England was still the same as in the Colonies. .Sir Samuel Griffith, representing Queens- land, concurred in thinking that the change would be most undesirable. He had known cases in the Australian Colonies where the Governors were advised by ministers to dissolve

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