Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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CHAP. V] TREATY RELATIONS 1111 wealth and Japan is the differential tariff imposed by the Japanese against places which have no treaty rights. It may be argued, of course, that the position is somewhat one-sided, inasmuch as Japanese in the Commonwealth, for example, have no rights analogous to those of British subjects in Japan, but consideration shows that any attempt to avoid this result would lead to inextricable difficulties. In view of the constant intercourse between Great Britain and Australia it would be very difficult to define any basis on which an Australian subject could be distinguished from an ordinary British subject, and the Colony is penalized suffi- ciently for its lack of adherence by the tariff disabilities under which it labours in consequence. In political matters proper there has been no attempt to obtain separate powers of adherence or withdrawal for the Dominions, and it is clear that such an attempt would be meaningless. It is impossible, as long as the Empire retains any unity, for one part to be treated in political questions differently from another part, and the separate adherence to and withdrawal from treaties is only possible as in com- mercial treaties, where a differentiation of treatment could be based upon a differentiation of locality. This remains true even in the most recent treaties, and in this case also the practice of consulting the Colonies has not yet been introduced save within somewhat narrow limits. Nor, as a matter of fact, have the Colonies put forward any formal claim to be given an option as to adherence in the case of general political treaties. Recent examples of political treaties concluded without consultation with the Colonies are the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the former of which, in the Convention relating to the laws of war, imposed certain obligations on the countries adhering: for example, as to free postage and exemption from customs dues for prisoners of war, to which effect could not be given without Colonial legislation, and the latter of which also required certain amendments in legal matters. Similarly in the case of the political conventions with Japan ; the treaty with France of 1904 for the settlement of outstanding questions ;

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