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

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Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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20 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I also an intermediary with the Home Government in the matter of the troops, and used his influence against the determination to make the Colony rely solely on its own strength for defence purposes. He recognized the duty of the Governor-General to exercise a moderating effect on governmental bitterness, to constitute himself the patron of education, of moral and social efforts, and to wield an un- obtrusive but pervading power for good in the Colony, and when he left Canada he had given a clear and convincing example of all that was best in responsible government. In the case of Nova Scotia the principle of responsible government had been adopted in theory contemporaneously with its acceptance for Canada, but it was by no means at once put into effect. In a dispatch of November 3, 1846, however, Earl Grey, in replying to a private communication from Sir John Harvey, laid down the principle that the Lieutenant-Governor should not dismiss his ministers, but allow them to be forced into resignation by lack of support in the Legislature. He also advised him that he should accept the proposals of his ministers unless they seemed to be based merely on considerations of party advantage, but even in such cases the refusal must be conditioned by the fact that it entitled the ministers to resign, and that if the public supported them concession to their views became inevitable, since it could not be too distinctly acknowledged that it was neither possible nor desirable to carry on the Government of any of the British Provinces in North America in opposition to the opinion of the inhabitants. The Lieutenant-Governor then proceeded to endeavour to arrange a coalition on the basis of the Liberals being offered four seats in the Council and one office. but that was declined ' Parl. Pap., H. C. 621, 1848, pp. 7, 8; Earl Grey, Colonial Policy, i. 209-13. The Executive Council was made distinct from the Legislative Council in 1838, by the instructions to Lord Durham ; see Canada Sess. Pap. 1883, No. 70, pp. 8, 39 ; Bourinot, Constitution of Canada, p. 68 ; Egerton and Grant, op. cit., pp. 297-310. For arguments for responsible govern- ment see Howe's Letters and Speeches, extracts of which are given by Egerton and Grant, pp. 197-252.

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