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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY , 21 on the ground of the unfairness of the proposal. The Liberal leaders pointed out that from 1840 to 1843 they had left the Conservatives to enjoy a majority of the seats and the posts, that the agreement had been broken up by the action of the Conservatives in 1843 in engrossing seven seats in the Executive Council, and that they had accordingly abandoned their coalition, and that now the House only supported the Government by one vote instead of their commanding three-fourths of the members as before 1843. In a dispatch of February 2, 1847. the Lieutenant-Governor forwarded to the Secretary of State copies of two memoranda by his Council which asked for a statement of the views of Earl Grey as to the mode of conducting the Government : they deprecated the adoption of full self-government as anderstood by their rivals, especially Mr. Howe, and they sought to maintain the limited interpretation put on respon- sible government by Sir Charles Metcalfe when Governor- General of Canada, when he asserted his refusal to rely blindly on the advice of the Executive Council or to sur- render the control of patronage into their hands, a view which had been accepted by the House of Assembly on March 4, L844, as a correct interpretation of the rule of responsible government. They then referred to the fact that Lord Falkland had consistently refused to govern with any but a coalition ministry, and that when at the elections of 1843 Mr. Howe, then a member of the coalition, went to the country declaring for full responsible government, he had been defeated, and his subsequent conduct in attacking the Governor in his newspaper had rendered his appointment to office in a coalition impossible. They also argued from the poverty of the province that a large adoption of the changing of offices would work very badly indeed. Earl Grey’s reply of March 31, 18472 recapitulated the principles of responsible government which be thought both parties really accepted. He laid stress on the necessity for the partv on whose advice the Lieutenant-Governor acted Parl, Pan.. H. C. 621, 1848, p. 15. 29, 2 Thid., p

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