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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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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380 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [raArT im bo discuss with his ministers the desirability of any particular course that may be pressed upon him for his adoption. He should frankly state the objections, if any, which may occur to him, but if, after full discussion, ministers determine to press upon him the advice which they have already tendered, the Governor should, as a general rule, and when Imperial interests are not affected, accept that advice, bearing in mind that the responsibility rests with the ministers, who are answerable to the Legislature and, in the last resort, to the country. A Governor would, however, be justified in taking another course if he should be satisfied that the policy recommended to him is not only, in his view, erroneous in itself, but such as he has solid grounds for believing, from his local know- ledge, would not be endorsed by the Legislature or by the constituencies. In so extreme a case as this, he must be prepared to accept the grave responsibility of seeking other advisers; and, I need hardly add, very strong reasons would be necessary to justify so exceptional a course on the part of the Governor. A reply was sent to this dispatch on December 3, 1892, by Lord Glasgow. He maintained the position that an appeal to the Colonial Office was not a natural step to be taken by a Ministry with a proper conception of the rights and privileges of a self-governing Colony and urged that it was their duty to resign or to give way, and not to act as they had done in this case. He summed up his opinion in the view that the practice of referring to the Colonial Office differences between Colonial Governors and ministries of the calibre at least of the one in question, was not one to be encouraged, in as much as the great Colonies all possessed the inestimable boon of self-government as fully and freely as did the Mother Country. The Secretary of State acknowledged the receipt of this dispatch in a dispatch of February 17, 1893. He thought that the objection to a reference home had come too late, and should have been made earlier, before the reference aetually took place. He had not sought the reference, but he would not be justified in refusing an expression of his view when it was asked for by the Governor of the Colony or by his constitutional ¥ Parl. Pup., H. C, 198, 1893-4, p. 42.

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