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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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584 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINTIONS [PART ITI sent up by the House, so that it was essential to find a remedy ; that with this object in view the Kidston Ministry advised the Governor to recognize the principle that the Crown had the power to nominate to the Legislative Council such number of new members as might be re- quired to overcome obstruction, and that such power should be exercised if in the opinion of the Ministry such a course became necessary ; that on the Governor declining to accept this advice the Ministry resigned, Mr. Philp formed a Ministry, and on the 12th of November, met the House which refused to adjourn and next day passed a resolution disapproving the contemplated change in the Ministry. It went on to point out that the House was constrained by the necessity of the duty it owed to the people of Queensland to refuse supply, and had done so on the 19th and 20th of November. The Kidston Ministry had never been defeated, and still commanded the support of a majority of the whole of the members of the House. It was quite possible to carry on the administration, and it was probably un- precedented in any self-governing state of the Empire that a House fresh from the people should be dissolved. Moreover, it was highly inadvisable that a dissolution of Parliament, suspending Bills dealing with railway and public works, should take place at that season of the year, entailing distress to thousands of workers. The House therefore prayed the Governor to refrain from the exercise of his prerogative. The address was discussed at great length and with considerable violence of expression. Most of the cases on the subject were reviewed, and stress was laid, on the one hand, on the impropriety of dissolving a Parliament without supply, and on the other hand, on the fact that it was impossible to leave in the hands of the House the question whether it should be dissolved or not by giving a right to the House to prevent dissolution by the refusal of supply. Eventually the address was carried by thirty-seven votes to twenty-seven. It was presented to the Governor, who sent the following reply, dated November 22:

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