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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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cup. vii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 599 example, the Bill to prevent the use of steamers on the Labrador Coasts in 1907 and 1908), but that action was taken with the consent of the Prime Minister's chief sup- porters, and cannot be regarded as having been an attempt to set the Lower House at defiance. In 1894 it was feared that it might throw out the Taxation Bill of that year, which had been carried through the Lower House by a minority government—several of the majority having been unseated for corrupt practices—but it did not actually do so. The contrast in this case, as in the case of the Upper Houses of the Maritime Provinces, between the Council before responsible government and after is most striking. Before responsible government the Councils habitually rejected legislation, and readily—as for years in New Brunswick— refused to pass appropriation and supply Bills, because they re- presented the Executive Government and not the popular will. B. THE ELECTIVE UPPER HOUSES § 1. Victoria Whatever may be the defects of Nominated Second Chambers, it is difficult not to feel that their demerits are small and unimportant compared with the demerits of Elective Second Chambers. No better example of the defects which arise from creating two bodies, each with a claim to represent the opinion of the people, can be given than by examining the history of the two Houses of the Parliament of Victoria. The two Houses there have always been elective, and from the first it has been found impossible to induce harmonious working. Moreover, the Upper House has, simply and solely from the nature of the case, being elected on a higher franchise than the Lower, and the members being required to have a property franchise, been representative of wealth, and is there- fore accused—a charge which it is difficult to deny—of devot- ing its main efforts to considering the interests of the wealthier slasses, more especially the land-owners of the Colony. This characteristic appeared in the earliest cases of serious dispute between the two Houses. which took

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