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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174 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART Ix constitutions to lay down rules by which the Governor could be removed on votes of two-thirds majorities of either house. This attempt was not approved by the Imperial Government, and dropped, but it was only an attempt to recognize what is the rule, that a Governor who cannot work with ministers must be recalled, unless he has acted on Imperial grounds, and the dispute is not one between him and ministers, but between the Imperial and Colonial Governments. As a matter of fact, the Governor is exposed to censure by his Parliament, and it would depend on the terms of the censure whether or not he was recalled by the Imperial Government. A man’s usefulness need not by any means be gone because he has been censured. There are several instances of censure on record, both in respect of actions which were in effect Imperial and of actions which were Colonial. For example, in 1861 an attempt was made by the Legislature to censure Governor Sir W. Denison in New South Wales for his action in sealing a land grant himself when the Secretary declined to do so ; he acted in accordance, or in supposed accordance, with his instructions from the Imperial Government, which until 1855 had had the ultimate control of the lands, and felt itself bound to make the grant alluded to, and the motion of censure was not actually carried.! In 1877 a vote of censure was passed by the New Zealand Parliament upon the Governor, Lord Normanby, because of his action in declining to appoint Mr. Wilson to membership of the Legislative Council when a vote of non-confidence in ministers was pending, on the ground that it was not proper for the Governor to take notice of a matter in agitation in the Lower House as a reason for refusing to accede to advice tendered by his ministers. The Governor then asked his ministers to advise him what reply he should return to the resolution passed by the Lower House, but they declined bo advise him, and declined to accept his view that they should either resign and give him the chance of obtaining new ministers who would assist him or defend his action. Accordingly Lord Normanby sent home the correspondence, ! New South Wales Legislative Assembly Votes, i. 58, 416, 647-743.

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