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

Collection:: Economics Books

962 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART 1V of voters, election petitions, and so forth, the laws of each Colony are to apply in the elections in each new province. There are, however, excluded from the franchise (as in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony) all soldiers on full pay, and further, while the date of the nomination of members is not, as originally proposed, to be the same throughout the Union, all polls are to be held on the same day, a provision which in a place of vast distances like South Africa will reduce to a minimum plural voting. The Parliament may legislate for the qualifications of electors, but no such law shall disqualify any person who is, or may become, entitled under the laws of the Cape as existing at the time of the Union to be registered as a voter from being registered as a voter in the Cape by reason of race or colour alone, unless such law shall be passed by the two Houses sitting together, and passed at the third reading by a two-thirds majority of the total members of the two Houses. No person, however, who is registered as a voter in any province at the date of the passing of such a law may be removed from the register because of a disqualification of race or colour alone. This provision? is intended to safe- guard the rights of the native voters in the Cape ; it is, how- ever, somewhat doubtful if it is adequate for the purpose. The native vote has been, even in the Cape, subjected to serious criticism, and the South African Native Affairs Com- mission ? in their report were inclined to prefer the expedient of the nomination of representatives of the coloured races rather than the direct participation of these races in the franchise. Of the four original provinces only one recognizes in fact a native franchise, and therefore there may be a strong movement in any new Parliament to couple the pro- vision of some sort of representation for natives with the abolition of the native franchise in the Cape. It was there- fore suggested in the Cape that the clause should be amended to require the assent of two-thirds of the Cape members for the passing of any law disqualifying natives in that province for the franchise on colour or race grounds. On the other * Parl. Pap., Cd. 2399, pp. 67 seq. Cg 35

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