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

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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. 11] LEGAL BASIS 61 In the case of Nova Scotia,! Lord Sydenham on his visit in 1840 suggested that the members of the Executive Council should normally be chosen from the members of the two houses of the Legislature, and Mr. Howe was offered and accepted a seat on an undertaking to modify the extreme character of his views on the question of responsible govern- ment. No change was made in the royal instructions to provide for this system being carried out, and as a matter of fact, as long as he was administering the Government, Lord Falkland declined to put the full principles of self- government into effect : he did not approve of them, and he insisted on ruling with a coalition Executive Council, which he thought was the proper mode of procedure. In this view he had indeed the support of the House of Assembly for a time, for in March 4, 1844, they adopted a resolution which showed clearly that they considered that a Governor was only to be advised generally by his Council, and that he could not repudiate the obligation of deciding on his Own responsibility what was best. But this system came to an end in 1848, totally without any legal change, but by the insistence by the party which commanded the majority of the Legislature on the adoption of the new system, and on the instruction given by dispatch to the Lieutenant- Governor, that he should act on the principles of responsible government. Indeed, the strong step was taken of removing, under the power which all Canadian Governors had, one mem- ber of the Executive Council from office, as he declined to retire voluntarily. At the same time steps were taken to secure the Passing of an Act, 12 Vict. ¢. 1, for granting to the Crown a Civil List in return for the surrender of the hereditary revenues of the Crown in the province. The same step of securing a Civil List wag adopted in the Union Act of 1840, and for a time stress was laid upon it, not as creating responsible govern- ment, which it obviously did not, for such lists had been almed at ever since representative government existed, but because it was felt that a Provincial Parliament should be com- pelled to determine to spend a certain sum of money at least 1 Parl. Pap., H. C. 621, 1848, pp. 9 seq.

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