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 III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAPTER VI THE LOWER HOUSES §1. Tue FrANCHISE IN each Dominion and in the Australian States the Legis- lature is bicameral, and in seven of the Canadian Provinces only one chamber exists. The Lower House is always a popular body elected on a low franchise. The Lower House is styled House of Commons in Canada; House of Representa- tives in the Commonwealth and New Zealand, in which Dominion the members of the Lower House are by law called M.P.’s; House of Assembly in South Australia, Tasmania, Newfoundland, Nova, Scotia, the Union of South Africa, and formerly in the Cape of Good Hope ; elsewhere it is known as the Legislative Assembly. The Upper House is called the Senate in the two federations and the Union, otherwise the Legislative Council. The Dominion and State Legisla- tures are legally styled Parliaments, the Provincial Legisla- tures are styled Legislatures. (a) North America In the Dominion of Canada the franchise for the Parlia- ment of the Dominion is regulated by the franchise in the Provinces, the general Dominions franchise which was created in 1885 having been repealed by the Liberal party in 1898, on the ground that the franchise of 1885 was based on party considerations and was an unfair interference with provincial rights. Under the existing law, chapter 6 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, there are minor provisions allowing for the preparation of new voters’ lists in certain cases, 80 as to provide that no voters’ list shall be more than a year old. It is also provided by s. 11 as follows :— No person possessed of the qualifications generally required by the provincial law to entitle him to vote at a provincial election shall be disqualified from voting at a Dominion ' 61 Viet. ec. 14.

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