Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

Document type:: Volume

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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part I. Introductory

Collection:: Economics Books

RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I elected and one-third nominee members set up in that year exercised the power of creating two houses accorded them in 1850 by a local Act, and with the royal assent to that Act the principle of responsible government was formally introduced in 1855. In the case of Victoria, which was part of New South Wales until 1850, the Act of that year created a legislature of the same type as that subsisting in New South Wales, and that body likewise exercised the power of creating a Parliament with two chambers by a Bill which was confirmed by an Imperial Act, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 55. Queensland, also a part of New South Wales, received a constitution of the usual bicameral type in 1859, with responsible government forthwith. South Australia has a separate history: originating in 1834 as an experiment in free settlement, it was governed by a nominee Council from 1836 up to 1851, on which date it possessed under the authority given by the Imperial Act of 1850 a Council of twenty-four members, one-third only nominee, while in 1855-6, by a further exercise of the power given by the Act of 1850, the Legislature was reconstituted on the usual bicameral lines and responsible government came into force. In Western Australia a nominee Council existed in virtue of various Imperial Acts until 1868, when a representative element was introduced, and in 1870, in virtue of the Imperial Act of 1850, the Council became elective as to two-thirds of its numbers. In 1889 the Council passed an Act establish- ing an ordinary bicameral constitution, which was confirmed by an Imperial Act of 1890, and responsible government became a fait accompli. In the case of New Zealand there was little real organiza- tion of government until, by an Imperial Act of 18401 a Crown Colony form of Government was instituted. Natur- ally that did not in any way please the people there, and an Imperial Act of 1847 2 was intended to create an elaborate form of government with a central Legislature, which should be representative, and a number of provincial Councils also representative, but the members of the Councils were to be 1 3 & 4 Vict. c. 62. * See Henderson, Sir George Grey, pp. 121 seq.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation