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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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

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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302 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II Australia, in Western Australia, and in Queensland. Tt also was the rule in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and Natal. Inallthese casesthere wereno distinctions between the Executive Council and the Cabinet. On the other hand, in the Commonwealth of Australia, in Victoria, and in Tasmania the practice, as also formerly in the Cape and now in the Union, is different : the members of the Executive Council do not resign office as a normal rule, though they can be removed if thought fit by the Governor, and occasionally this power has been exercised in regard to the two states, and so the Council consists of members under summons and members not under summons.! Here, however, the analogy to the Privy Council is incomplete, for the members of the Council under summons alone attend the meetings of the Council, and there is no parallel to the system in England under which any three Councillors may be called upon to make up a quorum for the passing of an Order in Council, and where orders are now and. then passed when no other members are in attendance than three officers of the Court, or other members of the Council who neither are nor have been ministers. Moreover, sometimes Orders in Council are passed when ministers of both parties happen to be in attendance. The Privy Council in Canada which alone? has the old name—though it is not a tradition but a new name coined in 1867, for the old Council of the united Province was always called simply the Executive Council —is a little more like in composition to the Privy Council, for besides ex- ministers it contains, or has contained, one or two persons, Speakers of the House of Commons who have been placed there for honorary purposes, or like the present High Com- missioner for Canada, Lord Strathcona, who was never a minister in the ordinary sense of the word. Moreover, the Solicitor-General is a member of the Privy Council without being a member of the Cabinet. But there again the likeness 1s not more than formal, for the members who are not of * The distinction is formally recognized in the Instructions of October 29, 1900, as regards Victoria, but not in the other cases, * Tt still survives in Jamaica of Crown Colonies,

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