Einführung in die Kriegswirtschaftslehre

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1004940505

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-17272

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Neurath, Otto http://d-nb.info/gnd/118587420

Title:: Einführung in die Kriegswirtschaftslehre

Edition:: Sonderabdruck aus: "Mitteilungen aus dem Intendanzwesen"

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: [Seidel]

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (Seiten 2-13, Seiten 2-16, Seiten 2-46)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VI. Beschaffung von Zeichengeld

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. I] THE UNITY OF THE EMPIRE 1459 in The Kingdom of Canada and The Kingdom Papers! lays stress on what appears to him the inevitable development of Canada as a kingdom united to Great Britain merely by the tie of a common Sovereign and by cordial goodwill. He insists that Canada is already entitled to that position, and he protests against the maintenance, even in theory, of the power of disallowance of Canadian Acts, of the supremacy of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the retention in the hands of the Imperial Government of the power of concluding even political and extradition treaties, and of the fact that the issues of war and peace lie in the hands of the Imperial Parliament. He justly recognizes that the powers of disallowance and of Imperial legislation are little used, and he insists on the fact that for all practical purposes, though technically Canada is at war with any power with which the Mother Country is at war, nevertheless it rests with Canada to determine whether she will take any active part in such war, and that if Canada chooses to remain neutral no power would be likely to attack it. It is interesting to compare with this view the proposal made in the first report of the Royal Commission on Federal Union in Victoria in 1870, which proposed that the right of treaty-making should be given to the Australian Colonies, and that the Imperial Government should secure for them a position as neutral states which would not be involved in war by the action of Great Britain through their being under the same Crown. That report never resulted in any action, and the public opinion of the day condemned the proposal as visionary, nor is it likely that Australia can ever obtain the same position of independence which Canada de facto now enjoys, in part no doubt owing to its vicinity to the United States and the protection of the Monroe doctrine. Another consequence would follow from the recognition of the equality in all respects of the Dominions with the Mother Country, and one for which perhaps the Dominions He resents the fact that the title desired by Sir John Macdonald was given up in deference to American susceptibilities. For a curious argument from the name to the status of the Dominion, see 27 S. C. R. 461, at p. 492.

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