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-

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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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OHAP. XI] HONOURS 1313 In the Commonwealth the question of precedence is ren- dered peculiarly difficult by the fact that each state has a precedence list, and that the Commonwealth has a general precedence list, which naturally assigns to Commonwealth officials a higher precedence than the states can be expected to give them, and the result is that according as the enter- tainment is Commonwealth or state, the precedence differs substantially. In practice trouble is saved by state officials who do not care for the precedence accorded to them in the Commonwealth table remaining away from functions given by the Commonwealth. Wives of officials in the Colonies as a general rule take rank with their husbands. Among themselves the Dominions may now reasonably be ranked in order of the date of creation of the present status. Thus Canada, constituted a Dominion in 1867 (July 1), Australia a Commonwealth in 1901 (January 1), and New Zealand a Dominion since September 28, 1907, by a pro- clamation of September 9, 1907, rank above the Union of South Africa, constituted in 1910 (May 31), and below all is Newfoundland, which still retains in official use the term Colony in its formal documents such as Governor’s speeches, Acts, &ec. Since the Colonial Conference of 1907 Dominion is a technical term for the self-governing Colonies. The States of Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, in order of popu- lation) are not in the full sense self-governing Colonies, and the Provinces of Canada (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, ranked in order of official precedence based on date of formation as provinces) ' At Commonwealth functions the precedence of state officers infer se is regulated by any state law (e.g. the laws of Victoria and Tasmania re the precedence of the judges). The State Premiers claim for themselves a higher position than ordinary Federal ministers, and for State Chief Justices a place after the Federal Chief Justice, that being the Canadian model, while the Commonwealth list places all Chief Justices after the Judges of the High Court, and Premiers after them instead of after the Federal Prime Minister

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