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

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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92 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART TI a letter from your Premier, in which he asks that’ your successor in the Government of South Australia may be a citizen of the State. 2. Iwish to acknowledge in the first instance the courteous and friendly terms in which Mr. Price has embodied his views, implying, I am glad to think, a well deserved com- pliment to the present Governor. It isa subject on which I had the advantage of learning Mr. Price’s opinions while he was in England, and I fully appreciate the strength of his convictions in this matter and the reasons which he gives in support of his proposal. 3. But the change which is suggested is a very far-reaching one—more so than, perhaps, appears at first sight ; and it could not, I consider, be entertained in any case unless it is to be applied to all the Australian States, and not to one alone, and until public opinion in Australia is demonstrated bo be overwhelmingly in its favour. 4. The proposal as presented to me is one which would leave the appointment of the Governor to be made, as now, by His Majesty the King ; but His Majesty’s choice would be confined to citizens of the State, and, though I understand that Mr. Price does not claim that the choice should be expressly made upon the advice of the responsible Ministry of the State, it is clear that the person selected would need to be one fully acceptable to the Ministry of the day. Gover- nors, therefore, selected in this manner would be gentlemen closely identified with local interests and practically the nominees of the party in power when the governorship fell vacant. 5. When the Canadian Dominion wag established, it was provided in the British North America Act that the tederating provinces should be under Lieutenant-Governors appointed by the Governor-General in Council, and with salaries fixed and paid by the Dominion Parliament. But under the Commonwealth Act the States of Australia, retain a more independent position and larger powers than the Canadian provinces, and the Governors are appointed, as before, by the Crown. From time to time under the present system the King’s representative may well be, as has no doubt occasionally happened in the past, one who has either been born or has passed part of his life in the colony of which he is subsequently made governor, but it is of the essence of the system of appointment by the Crown that His Majesty shall not be fettered in his choice. 6. There is, no doubt, much to be said in favour of the

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