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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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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CHAP. VII] THE UPPER HOUSES 565 pleased to refer the said case for the opinion and report of Your Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. A. H. PALMER, President of the Legislative Council. Wirriam H. Groom, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Legislative Chambers, 17th November 1885. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reported on the 27th March 1886 as follows — ‘Your Majesty having been pleased, by Your Order in Council of the 8th March instant, to refer unto this Com- mittee a humble Petition from the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Queensland, concerning questions which have arisen between those two bodies with regard to their relative rights and powers, bogether with certain documents on the subject, and to direct that this Committee should consider the same and report their opinion thereupon to Your Majesty at the Board : The Lords of the Committee, in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have taken the said Petition into consideration, and, in answer to the two questions submitted to their Lordships by the said Petitioners, namely :— "1. Whether the Constitution Act of 1867 confers on the Legislative Council powers co-ordinate with those of the Legislative Assembly in the amendment of all Bills, including Money Bills ? ' 2. Whether the claims of the Legislative Assembly, as set forth in their Message of 12th November 1885, are well founded ? ‘ Their Lordships agree humbly to report to Your Majesty as their opinion that the first of these questions should be answered in the negative, and the second in the affirmative.’ Names of the Lords of the Committee making the said Report : The Lord President (Lord Cranbrook), the Lord Chancellor (Lord Herschell), the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Lord Aberdare, Lord Blackburn, Lord Hobhouse, Sir Richard Couch. No witnesses were examined, and Counsel were not heard before the Committee. It would of course be premature to say that the difficulties between nominee and elective Houses have disappeared for

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