Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1300 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V of the United Province of Canada. He then pointed out that the removal of the connexion which had formerly existed between the Mother Country and the Colonies through the exercise of patronage and commercial protection might be replaced in some measure by the judicious grant of titles and other marks of the royal favour, showing the continuance of a direct connexion between the Crown and the Colony. He then recommended strongly that the appointments in question should not be made on the advice of Colonial ministers, though they could be made on the advice of the Governors and of Imperial ministers. That position still, on the whole, may be said to remain good ; that is to say, marks of the royal favour are bestowed not on the respon- sible advice of ministers, but on the advice of a minister of the Crown in the United Kingdom, whose opinion, of course, is obtained in part from the Governor and in part from the Ministry of the Colony. It is clear that if the honours are to be of Imperial validity they must be granted by an [mperial authority. It would be possible for His Majesty if the honours were of local validity to confer one which should be valid in Canada or in Australia on the advice of a Canadian or an Australian Ministry, but as the honour cannot be confined in space, the advice must be that of an [mperial minister who bears the responsibility of each appoint- ment and must inform himself as best he can on the subject by what means he finds available to him. Obviously the [mperial Officer in the Dominion or State, the Governor- (Feneral or Governor, must be one source of information, and a very important one. Obviously too, due weight must be given to the Ministry of the day. But it is clear that the weight of the opinion of the Ministry will differ very con- siderably in different cases. If the honour which it is proposed to confer is one for political services, their opinion * Cf. Sir J. Macdonald’s view, Pope, ii. 237 seq., and Goldwin Smith, Canada, pp. 155 seq.; Molteno, Sir John Molteno, i. 341. Higinbotham thought that honours should be given by the Governor on the advice of his ministers and the Colonial Parliaments; apparently he meant life peerages. A motion against the grant of honours was unsuccessful in the New South Wales Assembly in 1882 ; see Debates, pp. 460-72.

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