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 V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter I. The principles of imperial control

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1026 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PARTY Governor on the other, and if a state or Dominion desires these results—which need not really affect efficiency of guber- natorial control, for a young man may take the office as a stepping-stone to greater things—there can be no real ground of objection. In the case of the Australian states it has been thought from time to time in the state that a reduction of salary will result in the Imperial Government assenting to the desire to see local men appointed to the posts, but that is another matter, and, as pointed out by Lord Crewe to the Premier of South Australia, it could only be adopted as part of a deliberate policy, which, as the Secretary of State clearly indicated, would mean the reduction of the states to the position of the Canadian Provinces, which in theory is that of subjection to the central Government. In the case of Natal, the Imperial Government insisted in 1892 on the salary for the first Governor under responsible govern- ment being. fixed at £4,000 to begin with instead of the £3,000 proposed by the Committee of the Legislative Council which drafted the Act for responsible government. § 5. BILLS AFFECTING ABSENTEES The intervention of the Imperial Government in cases affecting the rights of persons not resident in the Dominion in which legislation is passed is reduced to the narrowest limits, and only Bills of a very extraordinary character could possibly be dealt with on this ground ; it is, of course, open to the Imperial Government to press for fair treatment of such persons, and it has done so whenever the case seemed to require it, but the right of representation in such cases is not more than could be used to a friendly foreign power, as it is not contemplated to enforce the power of disallowance. A good example of the principles which have animated the Imperial Government in this regard, and of its freedom from the desire usually imputed to it to interfere in the affairs of the Dominions, is seen in its action with regard to the Act passed by Canada in 1874 to regulate the construction and maintenance of marine electric cables. This Act was reserved by the Governor-General for the signification of

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