British Imperial Confederation

Author : Frederick Young
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230356754
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her Colonies written by Frederick Young and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...adequately compensated for by the greatly increased security and diminished cost which would be ensured to all the communities which should have the wisdom to enter into such a system of co-operative defence? We are told that 'the sweets of power having been once tasted by the Colonies, they will not consent to surrender them.' Now, how would this be affected by the chief questions with which a Confederate government would have to deal?--foreign relations and common defence. As to the former, the Colonies have never yet tasted 'the sweets of power, ' and can never do so until admitted to participate in the management of Imperial affairs by means of Confederation or, by becoming completely independent, being obliged at a great cost to establish diplomatic relations with foreign states. Neither have the Colonies yet tasted the sweets of power in respect to defence, and it will be long before they can do so if they assume positions of isolation as independent nations beside such great rising powers as the United States and Russia. Their customs duties need be no more affected by treaties made by a Federal Government than they now are by the existing treaties of the Imperial Government, and their rights to manage their own provincial fiscal arrangements as they please might easily be reserved by the Federal Constitution; which even if it only gave very limited powers of taxation to the Federal Parliament, would still enable it to raise, from such vast and wealthy dominions as those of our Empire, ample revenues for all Imperial purposes. 'Colonus' has not only approached this question with a confusion of ideas, but insists on discussing it with a confusion of terms. He will call things by their wrong names. He speaks of a governing body, which..