Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

Document type:: Volume

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

Collection:: Economics Books

956 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV effect permanent as compared with that of ministers, who are dependent on Parliament for their position. It is, however, significant that there is no mention of the political conventions of the Constitution in the Act. Strictly speaking, there is no need even for the ministers to do more if they desire to hold office permanently than to secure for themselves seats in Parliament, and they can be up to the number of eight nominee members of the Upper House. The Governor-General’s instructions make no mention of the convention by which he chooses ministers who possess the confidence of Parliament, and he will do so merely in accordance with the established practice. It might have been expected that the Constitution would have gone further in this regard, but the old custom is convenient, and it is always possible that any attempt to define more closely the nature of the Executive Government might have led to difficult questions of law. The Constitution does not even define the quorum of the Executive Council, and it is not provided for in the royal instructions to the Governor-General. The control of the military and naval forces within the Union is vested in the King or in the Governor-General as his representative, by s. 17. This provision is rather curious ; the corresponding provision in the case of the Commonwealth refers to the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth, and while the provision of the British North America Act includes the land and naval militia and all naval and military forces of and in Canada, the command-in-chief in that case is vested only in the Crown,! and it is by the letters patent that the Governor-General is given the title commander-in-chief.2 This title, which is held by practically every Colonial Governor, is merely honorific,3 ! Otherwise in the Quebec Resolutions ; see The Framework of Union, p. 27. See 30 Vict. c. 3, 8. 15; 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12, Const. s. 68. ? By a mere accident this was not done until 1903. when the omission was noticed. * The title has led to confusion when conferred by local Act; see the case of New South Wales in 1869, Clark, Australian Constitutional Law, pp. 266 seq.; below, p. 1263.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation