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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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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cuaP. vi] GOVERNOR AS IMPERIAL OFFICER 285 Australian States, New Zealand, the Commonwealth, and Canada. In the case of the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and Natal, there is silence as to Imperial interests, and this is followed by the case of the Union of South Africa, for in all these cases a more antique model—that of the Cape —is followed, which throws upon the Governor in every capital case the duty of deciding on his own deliberate judgement what course to take. In the case of Natal the Governor was given with regard to his acts as Supreme Chief a free hand after communicating his views to the Ministry and endeavouring to secure their co-operation, and in the case of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony it was arranged in the letters patent constituting the representative Legislature and responsible government that the Governor as opposed to the Governor in Council should exercise the functions of supreme or paramount chief. In both cases the control of the natives was deemed an Imperial interest, not on the ground of any special duty of the Imperial Govern- ment to secure the good government of the natives in these (Colonies, but because the Imperial Government is responsible for the rest of British South Africa, and unrest among any set of the natives communicates itself at once to the others, a fact fully appreciated by the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies when during the Natal native rebellion they sent men to the assistance of the Colony, and a consideration which weighed very heavily with those who agreed to unite the Colonies of South Africa. The matters in which the Governor is required to reserve Bills are now all matters which can fairly be said to have Imperial interest in the narrower sense : they concern divorce, which has Imperial bearings as a question of private international law; any present to the Governor himself which is due to the Imperial Government’s control over the Governor; currency and differential duties; any law containing provisions inconsistent with treaties; any law interfering with the discipline and control of the Imperial troops where there are detachments still situated in the Colonies, and any extraordinary law affect- ing the prerogative, the shipping of the Empire, or the rights

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