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

520 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [part IL The dispatch is an extremely able one, and is a justification of the conduct of the Governor which must be definitely considered as more than adequately meeting the objections raised to his conduct by the Secretary of State. On the other hand, the Council sent home a long statement in which they criticized seriously the Governor’s action, and declared that he had been guilty of illegal conduct. They said — There are other circumstances in which a deviation from the spirit of English precedents has tended to place the Council at a disadvantage. Neither from the Governor, nor the advisers of the Governor, has the Council hitherto received proper consideration. This defect is probably a consequence of the aggressive tendencies of the Legislative Assembly ; but these tendencies have been stimulated and not restrained by the action of the Executive. In England the Crown has not hesitated, when occasion required, to exert all its influence in order to restore and to maintain harmony between the two Houses ;, and it has invariably refused to lend its aid to either House to the detriment of the other. In this country a different practice has occasionally prevailed. Some Governors appear to have understood the principles of responsible government to mean that they were thereby deprived of all discretion, and were bound to permit the Ministry of the day not only to use the whole power of the prerogative, but to strain it, for the purpose of giving sffect to the wishes of the Assembly against the Council. The Assembly naturally retorted, and made savage attacks upon the action of the Upper House, which it accused? of having thrown out in twenty-two years more than eighty Bills, and of amending more than twenty others so that the Assembly preferred to drop them. It maintained state aid to religion for fifteen years in opposition to the expressed will of the country ; it mutilated till they were useless six Bills for mining on private property ; it seven times threw out Payment of Members ; it rejected an Electoral Bill and a Tariff Bill passed by a large majority. It rejected four Appropriation Bills and a Temporary Supply Bill. It threw out a Bill to provide for the defence when invasion seemed imminent. It rejected a Bill for an International Exhibition Parl, Pap., LC. 2217, p. 55. # Ibid., p. 65.

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