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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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

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CHAP. Vv] TREATY RELATIONS 1131 representative at Tokio an expression of regret for the excesses which had occurred. The principles guiding the matter were formally laid down by the Imperial Government both in Lord Ripon’s dispatch of June 28, 18952 regarding the conclusion of commercial treaties and in the correspondence with the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and of the State of South Australia which arose out of the Vondel incident? It is in that dispatch emphasized that the responsibility in these matters rests with the Imperial Government in the long run, but that the Imperial Government is entitled to look to the Dominion Government for the carrying out faithfully of all treaty and other foreign obligations. As a matter of fact, the Imperial Government retains no direct control over a Dominion Government, however much the actions of that Government might affect foreign relations. The Imperial Government recognized to the full this position when they granted responsible government ; they felt that it must be assumed that a community that was fit to manage its own internal affairs could be trusted to carry out an obligation which, as part of the Empire, it had towards foreign countries under treaty or under the general principles of international law. For example, in the case of the riots at Vancouver the obligations to Japan might be held to arise not merely under the ordinary international law, but also under the Treaty of 1894 accepted by Canada under a special arrangement in 1906, while the obligations to China rested only on the ordinary international law. But both cases were treated precisely ! Canadian Annual Review, 1907, p- 391. For Higinbotham’s exaggerated view of the Imperial responsibility, cf. Morris, Memoir, pp. 204-9, 219, 220. * Parl. Pap., C. 7824. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 1587, p. 14. See also Sir G. Reid in Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, 1908-9, p. 853. ¢ Cf. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's eloquent assertion in the Canadian House of Commons on March 7, 1911, of the duty of Canada to approve the recipro- city arrangement by legislating as contemplated therein as in accordance with its national honour, in view of the understanding with President Taft, loyally carried out on his part by convening a special session of the Congress of the United States.

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