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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 III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 511 In the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, under the Constitution Ordinance of 1852, there was formerly provision for plumping at elections of members of the Upper House, the elector being entitled to give as many votes as members were to be elected, and to distribute them precisely as he willed. [t was proposed when constituting the Union of South Africa to adopt generally the principle of proportional repre- sentation, but that principle was finally dropped, and is only applied to the Provincial Councils, which are not legislatures in the proper sense of the word, and to the elections for the Senate, where it has been pronounced a marked success.! In the case of the Commonwealth of Australia,? New Zealand? and the Union of South Africa? (as before in the case of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony), very elaborate provisions are made for the automatic redistribution of electoral districts from time to time, so as to adjust them to the changes of population. Similarly in New South Wales under the Parliameniary Electorates and Elections Act, 1902, and also in Queensland under the Act 1 Geo. V. No. 3, which makes certain provisions for the representation of the people of Queensland in the Parliament. The provisions are fairly typical and may be given at length. The number of the members of the Assembly is fixed at seventy-two, have been taken by an Act No. 44 of 1911, s, 26, to make preferential voting there compulsory, so badly does it work ; see Parliamentary Debates, 1910-1, pp. 3215 seq. ; Dr. (now Sir W.) Hackett, Parl. Pap., Cd. 5352, pp. 155-8. ! The State of South Africa, ii. 610; iii. 698, 699. * Sce the Zlectoral Acts, 1902-9: Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of dustralia,® pp. 120 seq. 3 Sco Consolidated Statutes, 1908, No. 101, ss. 16-22. There are two sommissioners, one for the North and one for the South Island, and the deviation from the quota is fixed at 550 maximum in a rural, and 600 in an urban district. ¢ See 9 Edw. VIL c. 9, ss. 40-2. After cach quinquennial census three judges are appointed by the Governor-General in Council, who redistribute by a majority—the Governor-General in Council having only power to refer back for consideration, They are bound to pay attention to community or diversity of interests, means of communication, physical features, existing 2lectoral boundaries, and sparsity or density of population, and can allow 15 per cent. either way from the quota obtained by dividing the total number of votes by members.

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