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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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 I. Introductory

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CHAP, 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 11 the power conditional on the existence of a Civil List, which is enacted in the Order in Council itself. There remain as full members of the class of representative government in the British Empire only the Bahamas, Barbados, and Bermuda, all of them islands. In the case of the Bahamas it still remains open for any member of the Lower House to propose Money votes; in Bermuda the practice has been some- what restricted by the resolution of the House of Assembly to deal with the estimates in one body annually, but the Power could be resumed at any time; while in Barbados an Act? was passed in 1892 in order to secure greater regulation of financial administration, under which a body 18 created called the Executive Committee, which consists of the Governor as chairman, the members of the Executive Council, one member of the Legislative Council and four embers of the House of Assembly who are nominated by the Governor. This body introduces all money votes, pre- pares the estimates, and initiates all Government measures. Representative government has thus proved essentially Unstable in character, tending on the one hand to develop nto full self-government, and on the other hand to fall back into a form of government under which the Legislature 3s well as the Executive is controlled by the Crown. It would be premature to pronounce that the system of representative government is fundamentally unsound as a permanent solu- tion of the relations of the Executive and the Legislature ; 1t has existed and still exists in certain parts of the world, and has worked with some success. But it is fair to say that in the British Empire it has never been a fortunate ®Xperiment. It has been found impossible to reconcile the telations of the Executive officers appointed in many cases from outside with the Legislature of the day. The Legis- lature, on the one hand, has been helpless in the face of its total inability to secure the adoption of a policy in general harmony with its desires and aims, while on the other hand the Executive Government, forced to rely upon the Legis- Cffiolonial Oce List, 1911, pp. 98, 99. See Parl. Pap., C. 2645. Barbados Acts. No. 55 of 1891 and No. 9 of 1892.

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