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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1757542078

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-134903

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Studies in securities

Edition:: Revised

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Jas. J. Oliphant & Co.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 81 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Atlantic Coast Line R.R.

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CHAPTER VIII THE CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES THE NOMINEE UPPER HOUSES §1. NEw SourH Warms IN the case of New South Wales attempts were made for a time to secure that the number of Legislative Councillors should be limited, so that the Upper House would not be In a position of complete inferiority to the Lower House. The members of the first Council were appointed in May 18586, and were to retain their seats for five years. It therefore devolved on the Governor in 1861, with the advice of the Executive Council, to appoint not less than twenty-one Legislative Councillors to hold seats for life.1 The Secretary of State addressed the Governor on the position in a dispatch of February 4, 1861. He pointed out that if each Government were to appoint as many nominees as it thought fit the Upper House would be swamped periodically, and could not fail to sink into a state of weakness and disrepute. He suggested, therefore, that the nominees of 1856 should be placed in the Council in 1861. On May 21, 1861, the Governor reported on the position. Certain Land Bills had not been passed, and ministers desired to increase the number of the Legislative Council. On the 10th of May he found himself compelled either to accept the advice of the ministers or to break with them, backed as they were by six-sevenths of the Legislative Assembly and by the people; it was admitted on all hands to be impossible to form another Ministry and the ‘See Parl. Pap, H. C. 198, 18934, pp. 69-99. For this chapter, of. Marriott, Second Chambers, pp. 131-52 (Canada), 153-81 (Australasia), 182-96 (South Africa); and Temperley, Senates and Upper Chambers. 1279-2 A.

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