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

17 CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY when British officers were punished for doing their duty, British emigrants were defrauded of their property, and British merchants discouraged in their lawful pursuits. The Legislature therefore claimed only what the Secretary of State conceded, full responsibility in local matters subject to the fact that the Governor was not responsible to them but to the Crown only. Lord Sydenham died of an accident before he could be salled upon to realize the ideal of the Legislature,! but his Successor, Sir C. Bagot, who had been Ambassador to Russia when the famous attempt of that Government to claim as mare clausum the waters of Behring Sea led to the protests of the United States and England, which were to be used with such effect by the latter in the arbitration over the fur seals in 1894, did his best to live up to the maxims of the resolutions, and so did his successor, Lord Metcalfe, whose views of government, however, formed in India and Jamaica, rendered him hardly an ideal selection for the post. He quarrelled with his Ministry on a question of patronage; the Government resigned, and with the greatest difficulty he formed a Conservative administration and dissolved and appealed to the country. His high character and his energy Secured him a majority, but he had utterly disregarded the réle of a constitutional Governor,2 and it was not unfortunate for his reputation that he had to retire through ill-health in 1845. The difficulties with America over the Oregon boundary caused his successor to be chosen for his military qualities, but on Lord Cathcart’s retirement Lord Elgin was shosen by the Whig administration for the post. It was certainly Lord Elgin who first consistently applied the maxims of responsible government in practice.? He was * His last exploit was carrying a Municipal Districts Bill in the teeth of much opposition ; see Egerton and Grant, op. cit., pp. 287, 288. * His views as expressed in 1843 are given in Egerton and Grant, Op. 295, 296. Cf. below, p. 21. * See extracts from his correspondence, ibid., pp. 310-34. Cf. also Earl Grey, Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration, i. 203 ; Munro, Constitution of Canada, p- 20; Egerton, Canada, pp. 191 seq. 1279 0

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