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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CHAPTER III THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS § 1. Tue GovERNOR AND THE Executive CoUNCIL Ix a Crown Colony the Governor in effect constitutes the Executive Government: he is indeed surrounded with a Council, and he is often required by law to do certain things in Council : moreover, he is expected by constitutional practice and by the royal instructions to deal with much business in Council, and as a matter of fact the business of the Colony is in large measure so disposed of, by discussion and consideration of questions raised in the several depart- ments. But the Governor is entitled to overrule, and does readily overrule if he thinks it desirable, his Executive Council, and the responsibility for decision rests upon him, in so far as he is not able by reference home to throw it upon the Secretary of State. The matter is far otherwise in a self-governing Dominion or State. There the Governor occupies a position nearly the reverse of that occupied by him in a Crown Colony. The ministers govern while the Governor looks on, is the popular conception of responsible government, and the idea has been given additional force by utterances of so distin- guished a man as the late Mr. Goldwin Smith. ‘ A Governor ls now politically a cipher,” he wrote; ‘he holds a petty court and bids champagne flow under his roof, receives civic addresses and makes flattering replies, but he has lost all power not only of initiation but of salutary control.’ This was written no doubt under the influence of the dis- ! Cf. Lord Lansdowne in House of Lords, April 10, 1905; Col. Seely in House of Commons, June 29, 1910; Cape Parl. Pap., 1878, A. 2, p. 14; Parl. Pap., C. 911, pp. 18, 19, 26; C. 3382, p. 268; TW. A. L. R. 230; Norton v. Fullon, 39 S. C. R. 202; [1908] A. C. 451; Dilke, Problems of Seater Britain, i. 295, 296; Transvaal Legislative Council Debates, 1907, n. 135.

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