Responsible Government In The Dominions The Territorial Limitation On Dominion Legislation

Author : Arthur Berriedale Keith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365501893
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The World of To-Day written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World of to-Day: Dominion Home Rule in Practice Newfoundland possess unitarian constitutions, one Parlia ment in each possessing full authority over the whole territory, though in the Union the provinces possess legislatures with wider authority than is accorded nor mally to local authorities. Canada and Australia, on the other hand, possess federal constitutions, under which legislative and executive authority is shared between the central and the local legislatures on definite principles which neither can vary. All the Dominions save N ew foundland have territories which stand apart from the normal administration; thus New Zealand governs the Cook Islands and Samoa, the Union the territory in south-west Africa formerly in German hands, the federal government of Australia Papua, Norfolk Island, the Pacific territory ceded by Germany, the Northern Terri tory of Australia, and the site of the federal capital, while the federal government of Canada has full authority over the Yukon and the north-west territories, where the scanty population forbids the establishment of the provincial form of government. Throughout the Dominions and in the Australian States and the Canadian Provinces the system of cabinet government as perfected in the United Kingdom prevails. Objections have been raised to it on theoretical grounds the fathers of Australian federation, admirers of the constitution of the United States, were prepared to con template the abandonment of the system in favour of the American system of a non-parliamentary executive, ' and opinion in Labour circles in the Commonwealth has at times protested against the interruption of effective administration consequent on parliamentary crises, and suggested the election of ministers for a fixed period as a remedy. But these arguments have not prevailed against the belief that in the immediate responsibility of ministers to Parliament lies the best security for demo cratic administration, and the history of responsible government in the Dominions records the steady approxi mation of the Dominion system of cabinet government to that in force in the mother country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.