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

Collection:: Economics Books

cap. If] THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 803 Government of South Australia in a memorandum by the Acting-Premier of February 13, 1903! maintained their position that the only mode of communication in such cases must be the State Government. The Secretary of State, in a dispatch of April 15, 1903,2 declined to alter the opinion which he had already expressed. He pointed out that the difference between him and the State Government was in the view they took of the Constitution Act. In his opinion the Constitution Act created a new political community in Australia so far as other communities in the Empire or foreion nations were concerned. The distribution of powers between the federal and state authorities is a matter of purely internal concern of which no external country or community can take any cognizance. [t is to the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth alone that through the Imperial Government they must look for remedy or relief for any action affecting them done within the bounds of the Commonwealth, whether it is the act of a private individual, of a state official, or of a State Govern- ment. The Commonwealth is, through His Majesty’s Government, just as responsible for any action of South Australia affecting an external community as the United States of America are for the action of Louisiana or any other state of the Union. 8. The Crown undoubtedly remains part of the constitu- tion of the State of South Australia, and in matters affecting it in that capacity the proper channel of communication is between the Secretary of State and the State Governor. But in matters affecting the Crown in its capacity as the central authority of the Empire, the Secretary of State can, since the people of Australia have become one political com- munity, look only to the Governor-General as the represen- tative of the Crown in that community. 9. The view of your ministers would, if adopted, reduce the Commonwealth to the position of a federal league, not a federation, and appears to me to be entirely opposed not only to the spirit but to the letter of the Act. 10. The question of the channel of communication must be determined, not by inquiring whether the particular power which may have been exercised is one which the Australian Constitution Act declares to be a power left to Parl. Pap., Cd. 1587, pp. 23-5. 2 Ibid., p. 25. I)

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