Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. viir] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 581 advisers, If ministers were unable to agree with the Governor they must in the last resort resign, but it was for them to decide whether they should take this step, and they had preferred to refer the matter to the Secretary of State. Since that time there have been no serious differences between the two Houses in New Zealand. An Act of 1891 limits the tenure of office of all new members to seven years, and this, together with the continuation in office of ministries favourable to the view of Mr. Ballance, has resulted in the gradual harmony of the Council with the Lower House. It is recognized that the Council is unable bo resist the Lower House, and all the important and most democratic social legislation! of New Zealand since 1900 has been passed without serious difficulties from. the Upper House, which has, however, served the useful purpose of amending these measures in detail. In fact, the Upper House of New Zealand appears now to serve adequately the useful purposes of an Upper House, but of course the position there is rendered simple by the fact that the great majority of the people are politically in sympathy with the Government, and that the Opposition does not differ from the Government on matters of fundamental importance. There have naturally been various discussions as to the possibility of strengthening the Upper House, and several members of Parliament have time after time introduced motions in favour of making it elective There is not, however, as far as can be seen, any real desire on the part of the people and the country that this step should be taken, and there are obviously strong objections to complicating the machinery of legislation, at any rate in a democratic country, and especially in a Dominion which has as yet no serious questions of external affairs to trouble it. "e.g. old-age pensions in 1898, conciliation and arbitration in 1900. The period up to 1899 saw a good deal of alteration and even rejection of land and industrial legislation, as shown by Pember Reeves in State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand. But the decade 1901-10 ‘ells of constant increase in the power of the Lower House. ' See e.g. Parliamentary Debates, 1907, cxxxix. 276-303. A proposal to this effect is a fairly constant feature of the parliamentary session.

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