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-

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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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1462 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VII 1882, in which the Imperial Government assert that in matters affecting the United Kingdom Her Majesty must be advised by her ministers in that Kingdom, and the reply sent by the Government of 1903, though it did repeat the opinion of 1882, and a similar resolution from Australia in 1906 met with no criticism. For the present at least it seems that consultation must be the mode in which the new relation of the Dominions and the United Kingdom is to be expressed, and the Imperial Conference with the subsidiary conferences offers the obvious mode of carrying out such consultations. It is much more doubtful whether any system of a permanent Council of advice such as that proposed by the Government of New Zealand at the Conference of 1911 is practicable, for there is the almost insuperable difficulty that a minister in a Dominion can only keep himself in touch with the current of opinion in the Dominion by residence there, and that a minister in London must be more or less completely out of harmony with the Government.2 Moreover, in the Dominions the supremacy of Parliament over the Government is much more marked than in the case of the United Kingdom, where many factors concur in giving the Government a strong control over the members of Parliament? ! Cf. Pope, Sir John Macdonald, ii. 228 seq. ; C. 3294. * Bee Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, pp. 92, 93, which decisively negatives the idea of the High Commissioners as a political council (Jebb, Imperial Con- ference, ii. 126-9). Sir C. Tupper’s case is isolated ; and technically even he was only a servant of the Governor in Council (Rev. Sfat., 1886, c. 16), though treated as a quasi-member of the Cabinet. * Lowell in his Government of England rightly emphasizes this fact and salaries to members will strengthen the position. But it applies in a much less degree to the Colonies. The Labour Government in the Commonwealth is strong in 1911, but its policy is settled in caucus. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was strong, but deferred to Parliament far more than an English Prime Minister.

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