Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 55 federation, for naturally the other powers in South Africa could not be expected to tender the same respect to a possession administered under Imperial control as to a self- governing Colony. In the case of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, it was agreed in the terms of surrender of the Boer forces in the field that the conquered Colonies should be granted representative institutions leading up to self-government of the usual Colonial type at as early a date as possible! In the case of the Transvaal it was proposed to carry into effect this undertaking by the letters patent of March 31, 1905, which were designed to establish in the Transvaal a represen- tative legislature consisting of thirty to thirty-five elected members and not more than nine or less than six nominees, who would have been officials of the Government. The consti- tution was in some ways one which might have been expected to be acceptable to the Boer section of the population, for they had never enjoyed under the previous republican régime what would be deemed self-government in accordance with English views. But it was fated to meet with disapproval : the progressive section of the Boers had, under the régime of President Kruger, aimed at securing a fuller measure of responsible government, and naturally they saw no particular advantage in a system which had admittedly been a failure in the case of the Cape and Natal. In these cases, indeed, it had been no doubt a necessary preliminary to full responsi- bility, but in the Transvaal there were already many people accustomed to responsible government. Again, the British element in the population saw without much enthusiasm the continuance of a rule that would keep them under the control of an Executive which they could not hope to influence in any adequate degree? On the other hand, the Executive Government were not likely to be successful in managing the affairs of the Colony under a system which left, them in a hopeless minority in the Legislature, so that they would probably be reduced to ruling by a coalition with & minority in that body. There was, indeed, present every * Parl. Pap., Cd. 1096. * Thid., Cd. 2400, 2479, 2482, 2563, 3250.

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