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 II. The executive Government

Collection:: Economics Books

124 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II provincial purposes. It would probably be a mistake to suppose that the passing of any Act was necessary to enable the Lieutenant-Governors to appoint Queen’s Counsel : it is clear that the Lieutenant-Governors must have themselves all the powers of the Provincial Executives: they are not, as the decisions of the Privy Council have shown, mere creatures of the Dominion Government : they continue, as indeed is declared expressly in the Dominion Constitution, the Executive Government of the old provinces before confederation minus the powers surrendered by federation, but the Crown is as much part of the Provincial Government as it is of the Federal; and conversely, while the power of the Governor-General to create officers for Canada is un- doubted, on the other hand it is equally clear that such officers must be federal officers, not merely provincial.l §5. THE ALTERATION OF SEALS A case which was mixed up with the case of the right to create Queen’s Counsel shows that the Governor would have no right, save through the delegation in the letters patent, to keep and use the Great Seal of the Colony. The great seals themselves are directed by the Crown? and approved by the King personally, being engraved as a rule in this country. When the Dominion of Canada was formed the old seals of the provinces which federated were deemed to be no longer appropriate, and accordingly, not only was a design for a new seal approved and appointed to be used in the Dominion by a royal warrant, which was sent out to Canada by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos on October 14, 1868, but next year the Secretary of State sent out, in a dispatch of May 8, five seals for the use of the federation and the four provinces, with a warrant under the sign-manual requiring their use, t All the provinces regulate King’s Counsel and precedence; see the several Revised Statufes and British Columbia Act, 1900, ¢. 31; Prince Edward Island Act, 1898, c. 11; Saskatchewan Act, 1907, ¢. 20; Alberta Act, 1807, c. 21. ‘The Governor even now is not appointed to alter the seals; all the seals for the new reigns of King Edward VII and George V were approved by the Crown, of course in accordance with the wishes of the Dominions.

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