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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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

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CHAP. IV] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 183 Mr. Brown and Mr. Dorion, and suggested that Mr. Brown should form a Ministry. Mr. Brown did so, and then discussed with the Governor the question of dissolution. He was badly beaten at once in both Houses of the Legisla- ture, and it was clear that he could only dissolve. * But the Governor, in a long and reasoned memorandum, declined to grant a dissolution, on the ground that there seemed no reason to be sure that the Government could not be managed by the old administration without a dissolution ; that a dis- solution promised little prospect of change; that there was no reason to ascribe to the measures suggested by the new Ministry any special efficacy to deal with the troubles then affecting the two parts of the province, and that the time of harvest was inconvenient for an election. On learning the decision the administration resigned and the new ministers took their seats again, not being compelled to secure re-election, as there had been no substantial break in the tenure of their. offices! This, however, involved a curious ‘double shuffle’, ministers first accepting new offices so as to comply with the terms of the Act 20 Vict. c. 22, and then taking over their old offices, a proceeding naturally severely criticized in public, and the Act was later changed. In 1860 the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia declined to grant ministers a dissolution after defeat in the House, and the case is interesting because he met in his defence the argument that the Governor is a mere figurehead. ‘Mr. Johnston (the Premier),” he wrote, would place a Governor in the same position as the Queen, and the Council in the position of the Cabinet at home, forgetting entirely that the Governor is himself responsible to the Home Government, and that it is no excuse for him to say in answer to any charge against his administration of affairs, I did so by she advice of my Council.” His action was justified by the result, as the Opposition formed a successful administration.? In 1877 the Governor of New South Wales sent home for “17 U. C. Q. B. 310; 8 U. C. C. P. 479. i. ove Scotia Assembly Journals. 1860, App. pp. 11-46 : 1861, App. 0. YY.

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