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

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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946 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV was to focus public attention on the question, and after much discussion at the Conference of May 1908 for the revision of customs—the Transvaal demanding lower duties— and railway rates, the idea took practical shape in the selection of delegates from the several Colonies with the authority of the Colonial Governments and Parliaments to discuss the basis of a unification in some way of South Africa. The actual Constitution which resulted from the labours of the delegates was not, as was originally expected by the advocates of some union, a federal one, but an Act of Union. The preamble expressly says that it is desirable that the Colonies in South Africa should be united under one Govern- ment in a legislative union under the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland, and that it is expedient to make provision for the union of the Colonies and to define the executive, legisla- tive, and judicial powers of the Government of the Union. In this respect the Government stands in striking contrast to the Government which would have heen set up under the “onstitution of 1877. The Constitution which was proposed in 1877! was a purely federal one, though the term ‘union’ was used in the title and in the preamble. The provisions of the Act were mainly based on those of the British North America Act, 1867: for example, in the Executive Government the Governor-General was to be advised by a ‘ Privy Council». The legislative power was vested in a Union Parliament consisting of a Legislative Council, to be constituted as the Crown should direct, and an elective House of Assembly in which due provision was to be made for the representa- tion of the natives. Provision was made for the decennial readjustment of representation in the Parliament and for proportionate representation of the provinces. The pro- visions as to royal assent to Bills, reservation, and disallow- ance were precisely modelled on those of the Canadian Act. The Union was to be divided into provinces which ! 40 & 41 Viet. c. 47. The arguments against federation in South Africa are set out at length in The Qovernment of South Africa, i. 260 seq., 303 seq.. 357 seq.

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