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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cap. ii] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 963 hand, it was argued that there was little chance of the passing of any disfranchising measure of this kind, and that the safeguard of a two-thirds majority of both Houses should be adequate. The Bloemfontein Conference strength- ened the position by in effect requiring any such Bill to be reserved,! and in introducing the Bill in the House of Lords, Lord Crewe indicated that such a Bill might be refused the royal assent.? Under the original draft the election of members of the Assembly was to take place on the principle of proportional representation with the single transferable vote, and the Governor-General in Council was to issue regulations as to the arrangements for counting the votes on this principle ; on such regulations being promulgated they were to have the force of law unless and until Parliament otherwise provided ; but at the Bloemfontein Conference this proposal was rejected at the wish of the Cape and the Orange River as a compromise in order to obtain the retention of the prin- ciple of equal electoral areas. The Governor-General has, as formerly in the Cape, the anusual power of dissolving both Houses simultaneously or of dissolving the Assembly only ;® he cannot, however, dissolve the Senate for ten years after the Union, and in no case is the dissolution to affect senators nominated by the Governor-General in Council. There must be a session every year! The Parliament will sit at Capetown (s. 23), though the capital of the Union for other purposes is Pre- toria (s. 18), while the Supreme Court will sit normally at Bloemfontein. The disqualifications for membership of the two Houses are the same :® they follow the usual lines and include 1 A clause is placed in the royal instructions to this effect, as the legal juestion is not free from doubt; see Colonel Seely in House of Commons Debates, ix, 1635, 1636, who had discussed the matter with Mr. Schreiner, * See House of Lords Debates, ii. 761, 863-5. Cf. Lord Curzon (766), Lord Lansdowne (795), Archbishop of Canterbury (789 seq.) ; see House of Commons, ix. 1634 seq., 958 seq. (Colonel Seely). ® 5 20. 1g, 22. % 5.53. Dd2

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