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 II. The commonwealth of Australia

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CHAPTER II THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA $ 1. Tur History oF FEDERATION TuE Constitution of the Commonwealth presents in all essentials a very different aspect to that of the Canadian Dominion. It is a constitution arising from different needs and animated by a different spirit. In the case of the Dominion there can be no doubt that much stress was laid on the advantages of adopting a system of polity which would strengthen the British power in North America against the United States ; the fact that the term kingdom of Canada could not be adopted has been long attributed to the wish of the Imperial Government not to annoy uselessly the republicans south of the boundary by insisting on the monarchical principle as being part of the Constitution of the Dominion! In Australia all was different ; there was no foreign pressure of a strong and somewhat jealous neighbour with alleged designs on the integrity of the Dominion ; if the echoes of the Russian war in the Crimea and the fear of Russian intrigues in Afghanistan in 1877-8 aroused for the time being a martial spirit among the people of the Common- wealth, there was not sufficient impetus in that to carry federation, and though no doubt the desire for a more effective defence played a part in the demand for federation, it would be idle to deny that the immediate outcome of federation was certainly not the increase of the strength of the military or naval forces, but rather their decrease at once in numbers and in efficiency. This is now being changed in its * Bourinot, Constitution of Canada, p. 47, n.; cf. also the annexation resolution in Egerton and Grant, Canadian Constitutional History, p. 339 ; Pope, Life of Sir John Macdonald, i. 71, 72. For the history of federation in Australia, see Quick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, pp. 79~ 252; Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia®, pp. 17-64. See also Egerton, Confederations and Unions, pp. 189-230.

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