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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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 II. The executive Government

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cmap. 1] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 151 the Council, and so he cannot perform any act in Council without a majority, but he can always refuse to act, and so can force his ministers to give way on the point at issue or to resign their posts. Even in the case of a ministerial act he can forbid the minister to perform any action on pain of dismissal, so that legally a Governor is far removed from being a figurehead. The relation of the Governor to his Executive Council has been the subject of much discussion, and the principles laid down are of such interest as to justify the consideration of two of the views expressed at length. It may first, how- ever, be useful to set out the relations in typical cases as laid down in the letters patent and instructions. In the case of Newfoundland, the only Colony which still, under self-government, bears the name with pride, it is provided in Clause II of the letters patent of March 28, 1876, as follows — And we do hereby declare our pleasure that there shall be an Executive Council in our said Colony, and that the said Council shall consist of such persons as are now or may at any time be declared by any law enacted by the Legislature of our said Colony to be members of our said Council, and of such other persons as our said Governor shall from time to time in our name and on our behalf, but subject to any law as aforesaid, appoint under the public seal to be members of our said Council. There is no substantial difference in the enactments for the other Colonies where the Executive Council is constituted by letters patent, but in the other cases, those of the six States of the Commonwealth, New Zealand; and formerly of the four South African Colonies, the wording of the last portion of the clause was slightly altered so as to read in the case of New Zealand : ‘and of such other persons as the Governor shall from time to time in our name and on our behalf, but subject to any law as aforesaid, appoint under the public seal of the Dominion to be members of the Executive Council of the Dominion.” This section appears to contemplate the possibility of a law which forbade the adding more than a certain number of members to the

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