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

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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638 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART II telegram duly acknowledged.! Or again, such interesting questions as that of elective Ministries may there be mooted. The prediction? that federation would ruin responsible government or vice versa has not been realized : the Upper House has not attempted to claim control over the Govern- ment, and the traditions of responsible government have so far overwhelmingly prevailed. In the case of the Commonwealth it was anticipated, as was natural, that the Upper House, with its fixed representa- tion according to states and not according to population, would serve as a means of securing state interests against encroachments by the Federal Government. This appears clearly to have been the view held by almost every one in the discussions preceding confederation, and it is decidedly curious that these discussions should in effect have been so singularly far from being fulfilled. The result might have been different had the Upper House been elected on a different franchise from the Lower House, but the Commonwealth Franchise Act, No. 8 of 1902, provided man- hood and womanhood suffrage for both Houses, with the result that the only difference between the Houses is that the Upper House is elected on wider electoral districts than the Lower House, for the present each state being regarded as a single area, and therefore three senators being appointed at each election. The result has been that the Labour party, which is much better organized electorally than its oppo- nents, have secured control of the Senate, and the Labour party is decidedly opposed to attributing to the states any rights beyond those which clearly belong to them under the Constitution. § 6. THE CaPE oF Goon Horr In the case of the Cape of Good Hope even less useful purpose than usual seemed to be served by the Upper House, for it differed from the Lower House only in the * Parliamentary Debates, 1910, pp. 6300 seq. ' Sir 8. Griffith, Sir R. Baker, and Mr. Clark, were among the prophets —false ones, fortunately. See Quick and Garran, Constitution of Common- wealth, pp. 706, 707.

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