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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)a THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II § 2. RELATION OF THE GOVERNOR TO A DEFEATED MINISTRY It is of course clear that a Ministry which has been defeated and is simply waiting to leave office, unless the country returns it to power, cannot be allowed to exercise the more important functions of Government. If they tried to do so, it would be the duty of the Governor to restrain them, and if need be to dismiss. The instances in which this principle has been laid down are numerous: for example, Sir John Young, in reporting in 1865 as to his refusal to create extra members of the Upper House of New South Wales at the request of his Ministry, noted the fact that as they had no real support in the country and were on the verge of a defeat he had declined their application, for that among other reasons.! Sir Hercules Robinson, in granting the request of Sir G. Grey for a dissolution in New Zealand in 1879, ex- pressly laid stress on the fact that the Ministry must confine its activities to mere routine matters until it had appealed successfully to the people? In 1877 the Marquess of Normanby declined to accept the advice of his ministers to add a member to the Legislative Council of New Zealand while a vote of censure was pending against them in the Lower House, and though on the victory of the Government in the debate he at once made the appointment, the protests of the Government were not accepted as valid by the Secretary of State to whom the incident was reported. On the other hand, Lord Onslow, in 1891, on the defeat of the New Zealand Ministry, was nevertheless willing to create a limited number of members of the Upper House at the request of the Ministry. They desired to create eleven new members, and insisted that he must accept their advice or resignation. He, however, by negotiations induced them to * Parl. Pap., H. C. 198, 1893-4, pp. 75 seq. * New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1879, A. 1 and 2, But in 1869 the Governor made appointments to the Council, both during and after a debate on a vole of no confidence, which was carried. 8 New Zealand Gazelte, June 21, 1878.

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