Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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i8 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART 1 of a dismemberment of the province. He urged that if the representation of east and west were unfair the Parliament could alter it and adjust it, and all that he would do was to suggest that if the experiment of having a single legislature would not work steps might be taken to divide the country into two provinces, and have a central and two provincial legislatures ; but this he deemed only proper to be resorted to if the existing arrangement should prove unsatisfactory. He refuted the comparison with New South Wales and Queens- land by pointing out that the size of Queensland and of New South Wales was out of all proportion to that of the Cape. In the case of Natal responsible government was discussed almost ad nauseam before it was adopted. Representative government was established by the charter of 1856, and in 1869 a supplementary charter was issued under which the Lieutenant-Governor was empowered to appoint two elective members of the Legislative Council, a body of mixed nominees and elective members, to be members of the Executive Council. In 1870 the Council was asked to pass a Bill bestowing responsible government on the Colony, creating a legislature of twenty elective members, and providing for the possi- bility of union with the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State : the Bill was not to become law without an Act of the Imperial Parliament, but it did not pass the House. In 1873 three elected and one nominee members were added to the House, and in 1875 a curious change was made in the constitution of the Legislative Council by adding to it for five years eight non-official nominee members, and by requiring that taxation Bills should only be carried by two-thirds of the members present when they were discussed. In 1880 another Bill for responsible government was introduced, providing for a legislature of two Houses, the upper being a nominee body, and for ministerial responsibility. It was sent home by the request of the House with an address to the Queen, but Sir Garnet Wolseley, then in connexion with the native disturbances Governor and High Commissioner of South- east Africa, reported unfavourably upon the project, and

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