Richtsätze der Landesfinanzämter für die Einkommensteuerveranlagung der nichtbuchführenden Handwerker im Frühjahr 1927

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1761769383

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-141806

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Title:: Richtsätze der Landesfinanzämter für die Einkommensteuerveranlagung der nichtbuchführenden Handwerker im Frühjahr 1927

Place of publication:: Hannover

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 168 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XI. Friseure

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162 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [paRT II In so far as it may be intended by the clause to vest in the Governor the full constitutional powers which Her Majesty if she were ruling personally instead of through his agency could exercise, it is of course perfectly correct. The Governor- General has an undoubted right to refuse compliance with the advice of his ministers, whereupon the latter must either adopt and become responsible for his views or leave their places to be filled by others prepared to take that sourse. But the language of the clause is wider and seems to authorise action in opposition to the advice not merely of a particular set of ministers but of any ministers. Notwithstanding the generality of the language there are but few cases in which it is possible to exercise such a power ; for as a rule the Governor does and must act through the agency of ministers, and ministers must be responsible for such action. As to cases not falling within this limitation the sub- committee assume that the power in question is to be exercised only in the rare instances in which, owing to the existence of substantial Imperial as distinguished from Canadian interests, it is considered that full freedom of action is not vested in the Canadian people. In all other cases the sub-committee assume that the Governor is as of course to act on the advice of responsible ministers, The sub-committee have not attempted to formulate with absolute precision the indicated limitations, but the general sense in which according to their view the clause should be framed and understood will, they trust, sufficiently appear from their observations. The same principle, that the Governor-General should be a constitutional monarch, he carried out in his views on the question of pardon : he could not admit that the Governor- General was at liberty to use his personal discretion at all, except conceivably in cases where Imperial interests were concerned, and even then he deprecated any reference to the power of deviating from ministerial advice. So in the legislative sphere he wished the Governor-General to be allowed full freedom of assent to all Canadian Acts, leaving them to be disallowed if the Imperial Government took exception to them. His conception and that of the Govern- ment of Canada of the day was that the whole Government

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