Holländische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1744885710

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-117895

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Baasch, Ernst http://d-nb.info/gnd/117692018

Title:: Holländische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: VI, 632 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Kapitel. Aufstieg und Niedergang der holländischen Wirtschaft zur Zeit der Republik

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. 1] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 713 mentioned above. It cannot alter the relations between the Houses, or the rules as to the recommendation of Money Bills by the Governor-General, and their origination in the Lower House ; it cannot alter the rules regarding the Speaker, though it can make provision for the filling of the chair in the absence of a Speaker ; ! it cannot change its own quorum, nor can it deprive the Speaker of his casting vote in case of equality of votes. It cannot alter the provisions as to the royal assent to and the reservation of Bills.2 Nor can the Parliament affect in any way whatever the provincial constitutions or the division of powers between the Federation and the provinces. On the other hand, the provinces each possess the full right of altering their consti- tution except as regards the office of Lieutenant-Governor. This power is given by the Imperial Act, and confirmed to each new province by the terms of its Constitution Act, which by the Imperial Act of 1871 is declared unalterable by the Dominion. The only power of the Dominion with regard to the alteration of the provinces is that of changing boundaries and the necessary consequential legislation, con- templated in the Act of 1871,® which is conditional on the assent of the province affected, and was exercised in the case of the Quebec boundary in 1898. The only limitation on the power of alteration in the provinces is that in s. 80 of the British North America Act under which the Quebec Legislature shall not alter the limits of any of the electoral districts referred to in the second schedule to the Act, unless the second and third readings of the Bill have been passed in the Legislative Assembly with the concurrence of the majority of members representing all those electoral divisions or districts, and the * The Act for a Deputy Speaker (57 & 58 Vict. o. 11) was validated by 59 Vict. ¢. 3; see Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, pp. 1314-23, * There were a few dicta which might seem to point to a power of con- Stitutional change in Fielding v. Thomas, [1896] A. C. 600. but they cannot be pressed ; see Lefroy, p. 699, n. 1. * The exact wording of this Act has been thought to limit the power of the Legislature of Manitoba, but the better opinion is otherwise; see Provincial Legislation, pp. 806 seq.

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