Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter I. The dominion of Canada

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b85 CHAP. vii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES I do not propose to answer the points of your address serigtim, but shall briefly put before you the position as [ see it. The paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of your address deal with the constitutional position of the Upper House. Co That is the great constitutional issue with which my late Premier invited me to deal. I declined, because I considered the matter too grave for 2 Governor to touch without a mandate from the people. By the exercise of the prerogative of dissolution the people are asked to say what they wish done. I fully recognize the inadvisableness of frequent general elections, I appreciate the peculiar inconveniences of an election at this time, but 1 regard it as of paramount importance that the country should speak its mind on this question, and therefore I have to decline the praver of your address, I recognize to the full the responsibility I have taken on my shoulders, throughout this disturbed political period. From time to time, under the constitution, a Governor has to take responsibility, but I cannot, shirk it when laid pon me. The reading of the reply in the House caused a somewhat violent explosion of wrath, the ex-Prime Minister remark- ing®: ‘This is a somewhat extraordinary position. His Excellency has turned down his thumb. The Czar has dis- missed the Duma. And now this matter is for the people of Queensland.” He proceeded later on to say that :— For centuries it has been recognized that the King of England, and in his self-governing dependencies the repre- sentative of the King, had no right to govern at all, had no right to use the people’s money, except to govern and use the public moneys in accordance with the wishes and Opinions of the representatives of the people. That is “onstitutional government, that is self-government, and to claim anything else for the King or a Governor is to set 10 the claim that cost Charles I his head. The dissolution proceeded, with the result that Mr. Philp’s Ministry was crushingly defeated in the country, having only twenty-five members out of a House of seventy- two, while Mr. Kidston had twenty-five supporters, and * Parliamentary Debates, c, 1783.

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