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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284 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part It grounds, in the sense that they rested on grounds which the Imperial Government believed it was their duty in the interest of the whole Empire to maintain. Thus, as will be seen later, for years they thought that it was right that all pardons in the case of criminals should be given on the deliberate judgement of the Governor, advisedly insisting upon this rule in the case of local matters as well as Imperial. Or, as will also be seen later, they insisted on Governors reserving currency Bills, divorce Bills, and Bills for differential duties along with Bills more clearly of Imperial interest in the narrower sense of the term in which are included only matters which affect the Empire independently of the particular part concerned, such as matters affecting the control of the Imperial troops in the Colonies and acts prejudicing persons in other parts of the Empire, or British shipping. The whole process of self-government has con- sisted in a development of the conception of the narrower sense of Imperial interest, and in the recognition of the fact that the government of a Colony in its internal affairs is normally not a matter with which the Imperial Government can or should interfere ; it may be said in a wider sense that the good or the bad government of a Colony is a matter of intense importance to the Empire, but it is of more impor- tance to the Colony, and the Colony must be left to decide whether or not it approves its system. The principle is a sound and very wise one ; the various parts of the Empire must develop internally on their own lines ; there must be no effort at a uniformity even if that uniformity is much better in theory than the diversity which independence always produces. The real life of the Empire might well fail entirely to survive artificial uniformity, for the Empire is an organism in which the development of the whole is dependent on the free growth of the several parts. Of this new sense of Imperial interest there is no trace at all in the old-fashioned letters patent and instructions of the Cape and of Newfoundland. But save in such cases the prerogative of mercy is to be exercised subject to minis- terial advice according to the letters patent issued for the

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