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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618 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 11 was no real possibility of a settlement of the situation. The Council took an opportunity of pressing for the presence in the Council of two or, if possible. more ministers, so as to ensure the harmonious working of the Houses and tend to prevent the danger of collisions. The departure of the delegation was postponed owing to further attempts to settle the matters by discussion, and when sent it consisted only of Mr. Berry, the Premier, and of Professor C. H. Pearson, a member of the Assembly. The Governor, in a dispatch of November 22, 1878, expressed much regret at the disapproval which had been conveyed to him in the Secretary of State’s dispatch of August 25, 1878.2 He argued at length that his action had been entirely in accordance with the principles of seli- government. He had understood that he was expected to act on those principles, though of course, had he known that he was intended to resist the proposals of the Assembly he would readily have done so. The action he had taken had been entirely in accord with the instructions which he had received as Governor of Queensland from the Duke of Newcastle, which he quoted as follows :— The general principle by which the Governor of a Colony possessing responsible government is to be guided is this : that when Imperial interests are concerned, he is to consider himself the guardian of those interests ; but in matters of purely local politics he is bound, except in extreme cases, to follow the advice of a Ministry which appears to possess the confidence of the Legislature. But extreme cases are those which cannot be reduced to any recognized principle, arising in circumstances which it is impossible or unwise to anticipate, and of which the full force can in general be estimated only by persons in immediate contact with them. The Duke of Newcastle further defined the ‘extreme cases ’ referred to by him as such extreme and exceptional circumstances as would warrant a military or naval officer in taking some critical step against or beyond his orders. Like such an officer, the Governor who took so unusual a course in the absence of Parl, Pap., C. 2217, p. 42. 4 Ibid., C. 2173, p. 99.

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