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its real object will be fulfilled. Probably the inconvenience
caused to the late Cape Government by the strong position
of the Upper House has induced the Conference to adopt
this special form of legislation. The other Upper Houses
in South Africa have, it may be noted, not played any great
part in Colonial politics, and therefore the representatives
of the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Natal most
probably felt no great eagerness to establish an Upper House
of too great strength. It is noteworthy that no attempt
at a referendum on the Queensland model? was made.
- In The Government of South Africa, i. 417-23, the possibility of a unicameral
 legislature is suggested, and in 1909-11 one of the proposals
regarding the Senate in Canada was its abolition, as in 1881 in the. case of
the Legislative Council of Newfoundland.