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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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210 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II might be able to carry with him part of the following of Sir Robert Bond, if the latter insisted, as was probable, on resigning in view of the refusal of the Governor to accept his advice. Sir Robert resigned and the Governor then sent for the leader of the Opposition, Sir Edward Morris, who accepted office and proceeded to form a Government. But he was unable to detach any of Sir Robert Bond’s following from him, or to elect a Speaker on the meeting of the House, and he was compelled to advise the Governor to dissolve the House. Naturally this action was strongly resented by Sir Robert Bond, who pointed out that he had been refused a dissolution in similar circumstances, and argued that, if it were necessary to dissolve, the Governor should recall him to office and permit him to have a dissolution. The Governor, however, adhered to the view that the dissolution which was clearly inevitable should be granted to Sir Edward Morris, and this was done with the result that the Premier was successful at the polls and came back at the head of a substantial majority. It is clear that, though at first sight there seems to have been some hardship in the fact that Sir Robert Bond was refused a dissolution, the course followed was exactly in concordance with the law of the constitution. It was the duty of the Governor to exhaust every possible chance of forming a Government before he dissolved a House which had just met after a general election, in which both sides had placed their policy fully before the country, and which, therefore, must be deemed to show that neither party had a clear majority in the country. To give under these circum- stances a dissolution to the Premier would have probably meant either a repetition of the first equality of numbers, or at best a slight majority for one or the other party, for the possession of the Government in the case of dissolution in Newfoundland has always been regarded as a great advantage in matters of politics. It was therefore fairly obvious that a dissolution granted to Sir Edward Morris would be likely to result in a substantial majority for his party, and thus secure a stable Government. Sir Robert

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