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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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56 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I element of difficulty and confusion, and the adoption of the form of government could only be justified by the fact that so recently after a grave war there would be risk in entrusting the Government to a responsible ministry, which would be likely to voice the sentiments of one only of the two sections of the people and to neglect the interests of the other. Moreover, by some advocates of the rights of the natives it was felt that their interests would receive more care- ful consideration from a Government which was under the Tm.- perial control than from a local executive responsible only to a legislature in which the natives were, in accordance with the terms of the surrender of the Boers, entirely unrepresented. There were other reasons of convenience in favour of the maintenance of the representative form of government as a preliminary stage : it was recognized on every side that it would be well that the Orange River Colony should not be constituted under a responsible government until the experiment had been tried first in the Transvaal, but so long as the two Colonies were under the Imperial control it would be easy to maintain the working of the Tntercolonial Council which had been called into being in order to manage the railway and police affairs, amongst others, of the two Colonies. On the grant of responsible government to one Colony it was felt that it would be very inconvenient if the other were still under the Colonial Office. But these con- siderations were deemed inadequate by the Imperial Govern- ment, on the formation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s administration, to justify the trying of an experiment in a form of government which had never been yet a permanent success, and which would only in any case be a tempo- rary measure. They decided, therefore, to introduce full ministerial responsibility for the general government of the two Colonies, the letters patent for the Transvaal being introduced first of all, and then those for the Orange River Colony? The arrangement by which the Intercolonial Council managed the railways of the two Colonies as one * On December 6, 1906. Cf. Hansard, ser. 4; clxvii. 939 seq., 1063 seq. On June 5, 1907.

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