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Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 891224181

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-65049

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Levenstein, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/116961155

Title:: Die Arbeiterfrage

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Verlag Ernst Reinhardt

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (406 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: E. Die Stellung der Arbeiter zu den außenberuflichen Kultur- und Lebensproblemen

Collection:: Economics Books

cHAP. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 167 only by the advice of his responsible ministers. With the exception of the difference of historical origin, responsible government existing in Australia by statute and not by common law, its limitation to local affairs and the reserva- tion of Bills, the analogy between the British and Colonial systems of government, and between the King and the Gover- nor, was complete. He discussed in detail the letters patent and the instructions ; he pointed out that the letters patent purported to vest certain authorities in the Governor which were already vested in him by the Constitution Statute, and to limit his action by instructions given under the sign-manual and signet, or through a Secretary of State, or by Order in Council, and such limitations were void and illegal. The duty laid down in Clause VI of the Instructions to consult an Executive Council was meaningless if it applied to the Executive Council, which in Victoria included ex- ministers, and if it meant the Cabinet the instruction was unmeaning and void. The duty of the Governor to consult his advisers did not spring from the royal instructions. If the clause referred to consulting them on Imperial matters this was an indirect instruction, offensive in form and without either legal authority or means of enforcement, to Her Majesty’s Ministers for Victoria to do something which they were not required by their duties as Ministers of the Crown to do. Clause VII of the instructions, which provided—° The Governor mayact in the exercise of the powers and authorities granted to him by our said letters patent in opposition to the advice given to him by the members of the Executive Council, if he shall in any case deem it right to do so, but in any such case he shall fully report the matter to us by the first con- venient opportunity, with the grounds and reasons of his action,” could only be characterized as a distinct denial of the existing public law of Victoria. As a direct instigation to Her Majesty’s representative to violate that law it offered grave indignity and conveyed an unmistakable menace to him and his advisers. He criticized with equal severity Clause XI of the Instruc-

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