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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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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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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CHAPTER VII THE CABINET SYSTEM IN THE DOMINIONS £1. Tae CABINETS OF THE DOMINIONS Tue Cabinet system in the Colonies is chiefly remarkable because of its close resemblance to the English model on which it is based. The conventions of the English constitu- tion are followed in a manner which is almost embarrassing in its closeness of imitation, and the number of experiments which have been tried is very small, and they have been onimportant in actual result. There is a certain difference in the nature of the Cabinet : in England the Cabinet is a body scarcely known in formal law, formed out of the Privy Council, and besides the Cabinet a Government includes ministers who have offices, and may or may not be Privy Councillors, but are not of the Cabinet. The Privy Council itself is a body including Cabinet members, ex-Cabinet members, ministers and ex-ministers, who have been called to the board, and many other persons who have been given the rank mainly as a compliment, such as am- bassadors, prominent politicians, and distinguished men of various kinds, including occasionally a man like the late Professor Max Miller, who was appointed because of his great literary and social qualities. To this body there is nothing in the Dominions precisely corresponding. In the first place, in many of the Dominions and States, and in the Canadian Provinces, the rule is simply that the Cabinet is the Executive Council pure and simple : there may be members of that body who are more closely in the confidence of the Premier than the others, but that is equally true of the Imperial Cabinet, and the only deter- mining feature is whether or not they are invited to the formal meetings of the body, and in both cases the whole Cabinet meets for discussion. It is the rule in Newfoundland, in the Provinces of Canada, in New South Wales, in South

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