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

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

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958 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [parr Iv Union of the clear value of £500 over and above any special mortgages thereon. The Senate shall elect a President, who may be removed from office by a vote of the Senate or who may resign by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor-General. The quorum is twelve, and the President or other presiding officer shall only have a casting vote. It will be noticed that the Senate combines in a curious manner the principles of nomination and of election. There is no parallel for that in South Africa, where the Upper Houses of Natal, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony were nominee and that of the Cape elective. Nor has a combination of nomination and election yet been tried in the Upper Chamber of any of the other Colonies enjoying responsible government, though a proposal to remodel the Parliament of Canada on this basis was introduced into the Senate in 1909 by Mr. Scott, late Secretary of State in the Dominion Cabinet.! The motive of the rule is, however, sound —it is often desirable to secure the presence in the Parliament of some outstanding man who could not be expected to face or to be successful in an ordinary election, and for whom special provision should be made. The requirement that the half of the nominated members should be selected on account of their knowledge of native wishes, so far as they are reasonable, will not of course be capable of legal enforce- ment, and the Governor-General in Council will alone be qualified to decide what amount of acquaintance will satisfy this requirement, but no doubt it will ensure that there will always be on the Senate a small body of men who are thoroughly acquainted with the native problem : the others may probably be skilled lawyers. Again, the length of ! Cf. also the Imperial Act of 1854, which allowed the introduction of the elective system into the Upper House of Canada, but saved existing rights, S There was some irritation in South Africa among the opponents of the Government because Sir F. Moor, originally selected as a minister, was made a senator on ground of his knowledge of the natives when he failed to win a seat at the general election. Cf House of Commons Debates, 1909, ix. 1530. The others selected were Mr, Krogh, Mr. Schreiner, Colonel Stanford, all admirable candidates.

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