Grundriss zum Studium der politischen Oekonomie: Volkswirtschaftspolitik

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Conrad, Johannes http://d-nb.info/gnd/118521853

Title:: Grundriss zum Studium der politischen Oekonomie

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1896-

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Author:: Hesse, Albert http://d-nb.info/gnd/13348551X

Title:: Volkswirtschaftspolitik

Volume count:: 2.1902

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1902

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Title:: Abschnitt III. Der Handel, das Verkehrs- und Versicherungswesen

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cEAP. vi] GOVERNOR AS IMPERIAL OFFICER 287 the position of the Ministry and the Governor when a Governor, in obedience to his instructions or what he conceives to be his instructions, refuses to accept ministerial advice. In one point the matter is being simplified : it is no longer necessary, as it was even until comparatively late in the last century, for a Governor to act on what he deems to be Imperial grounds without knowing whether or not the matter which his ministers intend to do is really one con- sidered by the Imperial Government a case for serious action. In the early days of responsible government, when dispatches took two months to reach Australia, and there was no telegraph, the Governor held an awkward position:* he might either neglect Imperial interests, in which case he would probably be recalled, or he might fight with ministers and make the place very uncomfortable for himself by the process of setting up an Imperial interest in which the Imperial Government did not happen to be interested. On the other hand, if the difficulties are lightened by bringing the pro- tagonists, the Dominion and the Imperial Governments, together, there is also the disadvantage that a convenient buffer for either party has disappeared: the Imperial Government could in the old days dispose of the matter by intimating that the Governor had been too zealous, while the Dominion Government could assert that they had not objected to the substance but to the tone of the Governor’s communications to the Ministry. This question of the relations of the Ministry and the Governor is full of constitutional difficulty, but it may be hoped that care will solve it adequately : there is one thing in favour of a satisfactory solution, that it is being realized as a serious question, and that the disappearance of the Colonial Governments in South Africa leaves the question of the relations of the Mother Country and the Dominions to be dealt with by more responsible and prudent heads than can be produced by minor Colonies governed by men with t The history of Sir George Grey in South Africa before responsible government, and in New Zealand before and after responsible government, is instructive.

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