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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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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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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164 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [parTI a Judge, he encountered as he believed this incorrect attitude, arose out of the case of a murderer named Morgan. The royal instructions called upon the Governor to require the Judge who tried the case to make a written report, and, if he thought fit, to ask him to attend the Executive Council. Mr. Higinbotham was only willing to attend or furnish a report provided he was asked to do so by lawful authority, that is, by Her Majesty’s Ministers for Victoria. The Judge’s wishes were respected, and no reference to the royal instruc- tions was given as a reason for requiring his attendance. His views, however, were more formally expressed in a letter to Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated February 28, 1887, in response to a request made through the Governor that he would state confidentially his opinion on the subject of the royal instructions given to the Governors of Victoria and other Australian Colonies. He insisted on pointing out to the Secretary of State that he was addressing him in his private capacity as an English politician interested in Colonial affairs, and not as the ministerial head of the Colonial Office. He added that his views were personal, and they were not generally accepted by, or known to, any considerable class of the population. He quoted a resolution which he had brought forward in 1869 to the effect— "That the official communication of advice, suggestions, or instructions, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Her Majesty’s representative in Victoria, on any subject whatsoever connected with the local government, except the oiving or withholding of the Royal assent to or the reserva- tion of Bills passed by the two Houses of the Victorian Parliament, is a practice not sanctioned by law, derogatory to the independence of the Queen’s representative, and a violation both of the principles of the system of responsible sovernment and of the constitutional rights of the people nf this Colony.’ This resolution, though carried by forty votes to eighteen against the Government of Victoria, had not. he admitted, t Parliamentary Debates, ix. 2670, 2671. For Mr. Higinbotham’s speech on it, see Morris, pp. 160-89. Cf. below, p. 621.

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