1st Edition

The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936

By Herbert Vere Evatt Copyright 1967
    362 Pages
    by Routledge

    362 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1967. The method or system of government in the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions may be described with sufficient accuracy as that of a political democracy under the Crown. This study is published because the author is convinced that constant research into, and analysis of, all the present-day implications and tendencies of such method or system are essential.

    The general problem of the reserve power of the crown; the reserve power in relation to the doctrine of responsible government; the reserve power in relation to the origin of colonial responsible government; an important Tasmanian precedent of 1914; the double dissolution of the Commonwealth parliament in 1914; refusals of dissolution in the Commonwealth prior to 1914; Lord Byng and the Canadian crisis of 1926; the Ramsay MacDonald dissolution of 1924; the monarch's reserve power - the struggle of 1909-11; the monarch's prerogative of dismissal in relation to the home rule bill; Dicey's treatment of the crown's reserve power of dismissal; Dicey's theory of the conventions of the constitution as applied to the power of dissolution; the reserve power in relation of the question of sanctions; the New South Wales constitutional crisis of 1926; Lord Chelmsford's exercise of reserve powers - the Queensland crisis of 1907-8; upper house appointments - the Queensland precedent of 1920; the Strickland-Holman crisis of 1916 - recall of the governor; the reserve power and the doctrine of the parliament situation - a Commonwealth precedent of 1918; Sir Philip Game's exercise of the power of dismissal in 1932; exercise of the reserve power on the ground of illegality; the in relation to the imperial conference declarations of 1926 and 1930; the constitutional status of the Australian states and Canadian provinces; Todd's thesis as to a governor's power to refuse a dissolution; the grant of dissolution in Victoria in 1908-9; two recent exercises of the power of dissolution in the Commonwealth; two older precedents affecting the governor's power of dismissal; Todd's generalizations as to the reserve powers of dismissal and dissolution; leading text-writers on the reserve power of the crown; the arguments in favour of the elasticity of the reserve power; the Irish free state's control of the reserve powers; some practical aspects of the problem of defining the reserve power; consideration of some related problems; appendix - the new status of South Africa.

    Biography

    Herbert Vere Evatt