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 13 the Council is still composed of a majority of official members, although unless the matter is declared to be of pressing Importance by the Governor, on certain questions the elected members are allowed to decide the issue. } 3. RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT IN CANADA The introduction of responsible government is inseparably connected with the name of Lord Durham and his report?! of Jan, 31,1839, on the condition of Canada, whither he went as Special commissioner to settle the affairs of the provinces after the abortive rebellions in both Upper and Lower Canada had Proved the bankruptcy of the existing system of govern- ment. In neither province had the scheme of representative government been in the least successful. The Executive Government had some resources apart from parliamentary grants, in the shape of the hereditary Crown revenues and the casual revenues, but these were small, though the Crown OWned vast tracts of land and was potentially in possession of the means of future greatness. On the other hand, the Legisla- ture had no control at all over the Executive, and one part of it, the Legislative Council, was clearly and wholly out of sym- pathy with the other branch of it, while from members of the Legislative Council the Governor accepted advice as to his eXecutive actions. The result was constant friction, amidst Which the provinces failed utterly to progress, contrasting very Strangely with the states of the American Union to the South of the borderline, and inviting invidious comments. Every possible device was tried to overcome the friction : Governors were conciliatory, Governors were dictatorial, but both policies signally failed, and Lord Durham found himself the face of complete breakdown of all constitutional Bovernment : in Lower Canada, indeed, as the result of the rebellion, the constitution had been recalled by an Imperial * Reprinted hy Methuen in 1902. Cf. Egerton, Canada, pp. 145-53; the report ig being edited and commented on by Sir C. Lucas. For the views of his Opponents, and a report of a select committee of the Legislative Counc) of Upper Canada, see Egerton and Grant, Canadian Constitutional History, Pp. 173 seq.

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