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-

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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:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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cmap. 1] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 969 actual position is quite different. In Canada the Lieutenant- Governors do not preside in Council and do not debate with ministers, not to speak of debating in Parliament. In the South African Provinces it is contemplated that not only will the Administrator speak in Council, but he will regularly preside in Committee and debate with his advisers, or rather his colleagues. He cannot dismiss them and he cannot overrule them in any provincial matter. He must act as the majority decides. Moreover, the Committee itself will not be a political or party body; the mode of choice by proportional representation with the single transferable vote will probably secure that the members are not represen- tatives of any one party at all : it is hoped that they will simply be a body of men chosen as the most suited for administrative work. New blood will be constantly intro- duced by the fact that each new Council will elect a new Committee, a power in which the Councils resemble county councils in this country, and as the Council sits but three years the Committee can hardly acquire any too great power. Again, the right to go outside the Council will open up a wider area of choice than mere selection from the Council would allow. On the other hand, the members selected from the Council will still retain their seats there and the right to vote. The Councils! themselves are not to be political. In each province a Council is created consisting of the same number of members as there are elected by the province to the Legislative Assembly, except that in Natal and the Orange Free State the number of members shall be twenty- five each. The members shall be elected in the same divisions as for the Assembly, and the divisions in the Colonies of Natal and the Orange River Colony were delimited by the same Commission as delimited the divisions for the Assembly elections, and on the same basis. The qualifica- tions for electors and members are the same as in the case of Parliamentary elections for the Lower House of the Union. The Councils shall be summoned to meet by the Administrator, who shall also be entitled to prorogue them, 1 aa 70-7.

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