La question d'Orient depuis ses origines jusqu' à nos jours

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 89315170X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-76526

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Driault, Édouard http://d-nb.info/gnd/116222948

Title:: La question d'Orient depuis ses origines jusqu' à nos jours

Edition:: 6. éd. mise au courant des derniers événements

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Librairie Félix Alcan

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 411 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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172 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II officer, or to maintain the separation which he endeavoured to assert of the responsibility of the Colonial Government in internal matters and the absolute control of the Imperial Government in external affairs. As a matter of fact, the Governor in his twofold capacity as head of the Colonial Executive and representative of the Crown, and as an officer appointed by the Imperial Govern- ment, serves as a link between the Imperial and the Colonial Governments, and it is impossible to treat him as serving solely in either capacity. It is impossible to doubt the legality or the constitutionality of the Government receiving instructions from the Crown ; the Chief Justice stated that if appointed to act as officer administering the Government in the absence of the Governor he would decline to send reports to the Secretary of State except such as he was asked by his ministers to furnish! That he adopted that position, which was no doubt logical, is sufficient to show how un- practical were his views of the position of the Governor. On the one hand he emphasized almost unnecessarily the dependent character of a Colonial Government, while on the other hand he emphasized the independence of its adminis- tration. The separation of the two sides of its activities is impossible. A Colonial Government is part of the Empire, and must play its share in the external relations of the Empire, and on the other hand it cannot claim, owing to the fact that it is not a separate entity, the full development of ministerial responsibility which appertains to the Ministry in the United Kingdom, and which is enjoyed by the Execu- tive Government of a Sovereign State in the full technical sense of the term. § 4. TeE DuaL PoSITION OF THE (GOVERNOR There is certainly this great advantage about the views of both Mr. Higinbotham and Mr. Blake that they distin- guish clearly between the Governor in his post as head * Accordingly he was not allowed to administer the Government at any ime, special arrangements being made to avoid this contingency ; see Dilke, Problems of Greater Brituin, i. 233 seq.

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