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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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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JHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 25 ybove mentioned, save that for a single-chambered legisla- ture, were made permanent. Another provision in the original Act, providing for the appointment of a separate Executive Council, was not made permanent, and therefore lapsed. But these measures were only a slight remedy for the difficulty, and the colonists became more and more insistent in the demand for responsible government when they saw it established in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. On the other hand, the Imperial Government were hampered in their desire to meet the wishes of the people by the fact that both France and America had important treaty rights on the coast of the Colony, and that therefore there was risk in abandoning the control of the Imperial Government over the Colony. Eventually it was determined to give way, and the grant of responsible government was made on the passing of Acts by the Legislature for the purpose of providing retiring allowances for the officers who retired on political grounds, and for increasing the number of members of the Legislative Assembly! At the same time, in 1856, a dispatch from Mr. Labouchere, which has become famous in New- foundland history, asserted that in future there would be no question of altering the treaty obligations affecting the Colony save after full consultation with the Colonial Government. § 4. RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALASIA It is hardly necessary to enter into the details of the discussion of the grant of responsible government to the Colonies of Australia in the period between 1840 and 1850. It was recognized that a change in the form of government to responsible government was natural, and indeed inevitable, once the system had been established firmly in the case of Canada, and the Constitution Act of 1850 contemplated the alteration of their existing constitutions by the Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, and South Australia. * See Parl. Pap., H. C. 273.1855; Prowse, History of Newfoundland, Pp. 466 seq.

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