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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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330 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART 11 result of the polls was known. In 1908, also Mr. Philp resigned office in Queensland as soon as his defeat at the polls was a fait accompli, and similarly at the general election of the Commonwealth in April 1910, the polls being decidedly for the Labour party, Mr. Deakin resigned office. In 1909 in Newfoundland the election having resulted in an equality of votes, the Premier resigned office just before the Legislature met, in order apparently to secure that the Legislature should be unable to proceed to business through the impossibility of electing a Speaker, with the result that the Government might be deemed to be beaten and required to resign, when he could have stepped in and asked suc- cessfully for a dissolution of Parliament. But though the Government were unable to obtain the election of a Speaker, even when they offered to appoint one of their own men, they asked for and obtained a dissolution, and were sustained by the country at the polls. In the same year Sir T. Bent obtained a dissolution at the end of the year, and on being defeated at the polls resigned without facing Parliament. In October 1910 Mr. Wade, in New South Wales, being defeated by a narrow majority of two at the polls at the general election, at once placed his resignation in the hands of the Governor, and it may be said, in view of that case? and of others, that the practice is, on the whole, to resign rather than be dismissed by an adverse vote, but the principle is by no means without exception : for example, in 1910, despite their defeat in the elections, the Government of South Australia carried on until defeated by Parliament on the meeting of the Houses. There is a good deal to be said for resignation on the result of the elections as the general rule: it at once puts the Government of the country into the hands of those who should control it as having been sustained by the popular vote, and the retention of authority in the hands of a ‘ The Government announced their resignation at the opening of the House. * Cited with approval in South Australia House of Assembly Debates, 1910, p. 777. Cf. Parl, Pap., Cd. 5582, p. 40.

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