The reconstruction of agriculture in the Soviet Union

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Identifikator:: 1896933912

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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

1162 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V responsibility or require approval beyond that of the local Legislature. Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the Imperial Government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada. It is, therefore, the duty of the present Government, distinctly to affirm the right of the Canadian Legislature to adjust the taxation of the people in the way they deem best, even if it should unfor- tunately happen to meet the disapproval of the Imperial Ministry. Her Majesty cannot be advised to disallow such acts, unless her advisers are prepared to assume the adminis- tration of the affairs of the Colony irrespective of the views of its inhabitants. The Imperial Government are not responsible for the debts and engagements of Canada. They do not maintain its judicial, educational, or civil service ; they contribute nothing to the internal government of the country, and the Provincial Legislature, acting through a Ministry directly responsible to it, has to make provision for all these wants’; they must necessarily claim and exercise the widest latitude as to the nature and extent of the burthens to be placed upon the industry of the people. The Provincial Government believes that his Grace must share their own convictions on this important subject; but as serious evil would have resulted had his Grace taken a different ‘course, it is wiser bo prevent future complication by distinctly stating the position that must be maintained by every Canadian Adminis- tration. These remarks are offered on the general principle of Colonial taxation. It is, however, confidently believed, that had his Grace been fully aware of the facts connected with the recent Canada Customs Act, his dispatch would not have been written in its present terms of disapproval. The Canadian Government are not disposed to assume the obligation of defending their policy against such assailants as the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce ; but as his Grace appears to have accepted these statements as correct, it may be well to show how little the memorialists really understood of the subject they have ventured to pronounce upon so emphatically. The object of the Memorial is * to represent the injury anticipated to the trade of this town (Sheffield) from the recent advance of the import duties of Canada’. To this it is sufficient reply to state that no advance whatever was made on Sheffield goods by the Customs Act in question ; the duty was 20 per cent. on these articles enumerated in the

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