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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Digitisation:: 2022

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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CHAP.I] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 715 In Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia the number of executive councillors is actually limited by law to nine and seven (eight by Act c. 10 of 1911) respectively, and in the latter case all but six (now seven) are ministers with departments and salaries, and the seventh is President of the Council, so that if only a parliamentary tenure of office was required there would be a responsible ministry, necessarily parliamentary, but this is not the case. Freely have the provinces exercised their powers as regards the size of the Houses and similar matters, such as the franchise. Of course the power is not absolute, for it is clear that the power to amend supposes the existence of something, and does not in such a case (this is shown by the retention of the office of the Lieutenant-Governor beyond provincial control) render the Legislature competent to abolish the Legislature, but in all probability this limitation applies also to a Colony. The power of constitutional alteration, the power of legislation which is within limits exclusive, and the growth of population, have strengthened the provinces of late years, as is shown by the fact that the Federal Government is more and more chary of dealing with things except through the aid of the provinces, as has been shown in its reluctance to accept treaties on provincial subjects without full control, and by its asking the Provincial Governments to agree to its appointing a Royal Commission on education, to which they all consented, waiving the constitutional objection on the grounds of the desirability of such a subject receiving common treatment, and by associating them in the proposals for considering natural resources. If the Dominion controls them by its power of veto, they deny. as Ontario has denied, * This is a continuation of the old system in which the royal instructions provided for a maximum of nine members, a maximum already fixed in the Governors’ commissions of 1764 and 1784. There has been no legislation in Prince Edward Island, and the maximum therefore remains undefined in virtue of the continuance of the constitution as it existed in 1872 under Lord Dufferin’s letters patent and instructions by the Order in Council for union in 1873. In New Brunswick Rev. Stat, c. 10, the number is not limited.

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