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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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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I8 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I In the case of the Transvaal, as was natural, the model of the case of Natal was followed exactly. Clause xlvii of the letters patent of December 6, 1906, provides for the appointment of not more than six ministers to be appointed by the Governor in the King’s name, and to hold office at pleasure. These ministers were not subject to re-election if members of the Legislature, or to disqualification from election if not members, and a minister could speak in both houses, but vote only in the house of which he was a member. But there was no provision requiring that he should be a member of either house within any fixed period or at all. In addition a Civil List was granted, and provision made for pensions to retiring officers, and all appointments were vested in the hands of the Governor in Council, save in the case of ministers, and subject to any law which might be passed. But the letters patent creating the office of Governor which were simultaneously issued enlarged the position by providing that ministers should be part of the Executive Council, but it was not provided that the ministers should constitute the Council. In the case of the Orange River Colony the same provisions were adopted, but only five ministerial offices were laid down. § 6. Tur FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION In none of the cases which have so far been discussed is any provision to be found creating an Executive Council. The reason is not difficult to see : it is due to the same fact as accounts for the absence in the constitutions of Colonies generally of any provision regarding the office of Governor. When it was proposed in the Natal case to insert such pro- vision, the step was deprecated by the Home Government on the ground that the matter was essentially one for the prerogative and should not be made the matter of an Act, and the proposal was dropped.! But the case is otherwise with the Federations and the Union, for obvious reasons. The prerogative of the Crown to create a Governor-General over several provinces or states is indeed clear; it was t Parl. Pap., C. 6487, p. 72.

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