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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308 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PARTII Premier asks them to stay on ; in accordance with this rule Sir N. Moore of Western Australia offered the resignation of himself and colleagues to the Governor, though the Governor decided only to accept his personal resignation, a course which, if convenient and corresponding to facts, was scarcely in accordance with the established practice, for it left the ministers in full possession of their places before the Premier who took the place of Sir N. Moore had an oppor- tunity of deciding what ministers he should keep, and it would seem desirable to follow the strict course of accepting the resignations en bloc, and then allowing the members to hold on until the new Premier has decided on his policy. This avoids the necessity of asking a minister whose presence is not desired to resign his office instead of merely not asking him to remain in office.l It may be doubted whether a Premier in the Dominions has the full control over the Ministry which a Premier in the United Kingdom possesses. Thus in 1908 the Premier of Victoria was noted with some surprise to have laid down the rule that his colleagues should discuss measures with him first of all, and obtain his approval before they brought them before the public as being his Government’s views. In the same year one of his colleagues was the repeated object of attack by a newspaper which professed itself as a strong supporter of the Premier. In the case of the Commonwealth Parliament there was during the illness of the Prime Minister in 1907 an open fight between the Treasurer and the Minister for Trade. which ended in the retirement of the former. though * For an older case of disregard of the rule in 1847, see Pope, Sir John Macdonald, i. 50, contra 157 (1856), 285 (1865). Sir B. Frere tried to disregard the rule in 1878; see Molteno, Sir John Molieno, ii. 342. In New Zealand, on Mr. Ballance’s death in 1893, all the ministers resigned and a new Ministry was formed ; in 1906, on Mr. Seddon’s death, a new Ministry was formed on June 21 under Mr. (now Sir W.) Hall Jones, and on August 6 he resigned and Sir J. Ward formed a Government, really only a change of Premier. In September 1876, after a short interval, the Atkinson Ministry all resigned and then reconstituted themselves. In 1911 on Mr. Kidston’s resignation in Queensland all the Ministers resigned. See also Anson. Law of the. Constitution? 11. i, 120,

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