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

Collection:: Economics Books

“Hap. vir] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 619 instructions from home would not be necessarily wrong, but he would necessarily act at his own peril. If the question were one in which Imperial interests were concerned, it would be for the Home Government to consider whether his excep- tional measure had been right and prudent. If the question were one in which Colonial interests were alone or principally concerned, he would also make himself in a certain sense responsible to the Colonists, who might justify the course he had taken, and even prove their gratitude to him for having taken it, by supporting him against the ministers Whose advice he had rejected; but who on the other hand, if they perseveringly supported those ministers, might ulti- mately succeed in making it impossible for him to carry on the government, and thus, perhaps, necessitate his recall. The Duke of Newcastle added these very significant remarks — In granting responsible government to the larger Colonies of Great Britain, the Imperial Government were fully aware that the power they granted must occasionally be used amiss, but they have always trusted that the errors of a free government would cure themselves, and that the Colonists would be led to exert greater energy and circumspection in legislation and government when they were made to feel that they would not be rescued from the consequences of any imprudence merely affecting themselves by authoritative Intervention of the Crown or of the Governor. It was absolutely impossible for him to form another Ministry in view of the strength of the governmental party, and he had carried out in practice the conviction expressed by Lord Elgin while Governor-General of Canada, of the Supreme importance of keeping the Imperial Government, at whatever cost or risk to the Governor personally, aloof from and above the strife of Colonial parties. He did not Pretend to approve all the measures of his Government, but his action had been in harmony with that of Lord Elgin in 1848-511 and Lord Dufferin in 1873, and the action of the Crown in England in removing a Ministry in the confidence of the House of Commons in 1834 had been disapproved by a0 eminent writer. * Cf, Walrond, Letters and Journals of Lord Elgin, pp. 70 seq, See above, 1. 223. 1, 2, und of. Maxwell, Century of Empire, ii. 37, 33.

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