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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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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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16 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I alone, but that nevertheless the management of our local affairs can only be conducted by him by and with the assis- tance, counsel, and information of subordinate officers in the Province : (2) That in order to preserve between the different branches of the Provincial Parliament that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the Province, the chief advisers of the representative of the sovereign constituting a provincial administration under him ought to be possessed of the confidence of the representa- tives of the people, thus affording a guarantee that the well- understood wishes and interests of the people which our Gracious Sovereign has declared shall be the rule of the Provincial Government will on all occasions be faithfully represented and advocated : (3) That the people of the Province have moreover a right to expect from such provincial administration the exertion of their best efforts that the Imperial authority within its constitutional limits shall be exercised in the manner most consistent with their well-understood wishes and interest. Mr. Baldwin proposed a further resolution to assert the constitutional right of the Assembly to hold the provincial administration responsible for using their best efforts to procure from the Imperial authorities that their action in matters affecting Canadian interests should be exercised with a similar regard to the interests and wishes of the Canadian people. But this resolution was unanimously rejected after debate. It ran, in fact, counter to the dis- patch from Lord John Russell of October 14, 1839! in which he somewhat vehemently denied the possibility of full ministerial responsibility in Canada. He asserted that the prerogative in the United Kingdom was now always exercised on advice, but that could not be the case in Canada, for Canadian ministers could not advise the Crown, for the Crown had other advisers for the same functions, and with superior authority. This was obvious in the case of foreign war and international relations, whether of trade or of diplomacy, but it applied also even to internal relations, for no Imperial Government could acquiesce in the state of affairs which existed in Lower Canada under Mr. Papineau, * Parl. Pap., H, C. 621, 1848, p. 2.

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