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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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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 45 existing constitution, which placed an insuperable power of obstruction in the hands of a legislature not responsible for the conduct of affairs was a system only defensible as one of transition. The social and financial evils to which it was liable had only been partly averted by Imperial assistance, and by a succession of able Governors. In a further letter of November 171, Lord Kimberley intimated that a second regiment would be allowed to remain in the Colony pending the decision as to the adoption of responsible government, and for some time after, but the Imperial Government were determined not to maintain Imperial forces in South Africa except for Imperial purposes, and he warned the new Governor that no extension of British South Africa would be contemplated unless the Cape accepted responsible government. Meanwhile the question of the annexation of Waterboer’s territory came prominently to the front, and on the Cape Legislature agreeing to provide for the adminis- tration and defence of the territory in question, a commission was issued on May 17, 1871, authorizing the annexation of the lands in question to the Cape. Before this commission was received in the Colony, the existing chief officers of the Government presented a statement 2 of reasons for deploring the introduction of responsible government. The paper drawn up by them on April 26, 1871, is an able one, and effectively shows the difficulties of government at all in a country where there was so great a preponderance of the native race, where there was a sharp line of cleavage between the two sections of the European population, where education even among Europeans was so backward, where communica~ tions were so difficult, and where the people of the eastern province could not be effectively represented in Parliament, as their leaders could not afford to surrender their private interests to the necessity of a long parliamentary session and absence from their homes. But they were not able to show any real prospect of improvement under the constitu- tion as it stood. They evidently hoped that the state of confusion and difficulty in the finances might pass away, but 1 Parl. Pap., C. 459, p. 66. * Thid., pp. 173 seq.

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