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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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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CHAP. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 163 should be that of an independent kingdom save only in the cases, contemplated as very few, where the Imperial Govern- ment should intervene as a result of the fact that Canada was not an Imperial power but a dependency. But such cases must be allowed to be dealt with as and when they arose, while nothing should be put on formal record to diminish the constitutional Government of Canada. And where Imperial interests were not involved there should be full ministerial responsibility just as in the United Kingdom. It is interesting to see how far we have travelled from Lord John Russell’s views in 1839, when this claim for full responsible government he entirely repudiated even in internal affairs, thinking that even in these matters the Governor must retain a certain independence in the Im- perial interest. It is most interesting to see how clearly Mr. Blake, like his predecessor, saw that the whole principle of the Imperial Government was entire and full minis- terial responsibility : at the Colonial Conference of 1887, and still later, there were many Colonial statesmen who took the same wide view as was taken by Todd?! of the powers of the Sovereign to refuse ministerial advice in England, regardless of the truth that the precedents they cited were all signs of the times when true responsible government had not vet been established in the country. § 3. TE Views oF Mr. Hi¢INBOTHAM The views expressed by Mr. Blake in the case of Canada were adopted, but in a much more extreme and less reasonable form by the Chief Justice of Victoria, George Higinbotham.2 Mr. Higinbotham was convinced that the Colonial Office was determined to assert an illegal and improper interference in the affairs of the Colony. The first form in which. as ! Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies, chap. i, Cf. Glad- stone, Gleanings of Past Years, i. 203-48, Gavan Duffy saw more clearly in 1873 ; see Parl. Pap., H, C. 346, 1873, pp. 7, 8. * See Morris, Memoir of George Higinbotham, pp. 209 seq. ; Quick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, Pp. 394 seq. Ar 2

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