The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936

Herbert Vere Evatt

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136945939
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• FOREWORD by Harold J. Laski
• AUTHORS PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION
• INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION by K. H. Bailey, M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon). Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
• I. THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF THE RESERVE POWER OF THE CROWN
• II. THE RESERVE POWER IN RELATION TO THE DOCTRINE OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
• III. THE RESERVE POWER IN RELATION TO THE ORIGIN OF COLONIAL RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
• IV. AN IMPORTANT TASMANIAN PRECEDENT OF 1914
• V. THE DOUBLE DISSOLUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT IN 1914
• VI. REFUSALS OF DISSOLUTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH PRIOR TO 1914
• VII. LORD BYNG AND THE CANADIAN CRISIS OF 1926
• VIII. THE RAMSAY MACDONALD DISSOLUTION OF 1924
• IX. THE MONARCH’S RESERVE POWER: THE STRUGGLE OF 1909–11
• X. THE MONARCH’S PREROGATIVE OF DISMISSAL IN RELATION TO THE HOME RULE BILL
• XI. DICEY’S TREATMENT OF THE CROWN’S RESERVE POWER OF DISMISSAL
• XII. DICEY’S THEORY OF THE CONVENTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AS APPLIED TO THE POWER OF DISSOLUTION
• XIII. THE RESERVE POWER IN RELATION TO THE QUESTION OF SANCTIONS
• XIV. THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF 1926
• XV. LORD CHELMSFORD’S EXERCISE OF RESERVE POWERS—THE QUEENSLAND CRISIS OF 1907–8
• XVI. UPPER HOUSE APPOINTMENTS—THE QUEENSLAND PRECEDENT OF 1920
• XVII. THE STRICKLAND-HOLMAN CRISIS OF 1916: RECALL OF THE GOVERNOR
• XVIII. THE RESERVE POWER AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SITUATION: A COMMONWEALTH PRECEDENT OF 1918
• XIX. SIR PHILIP GAME’S EXERCISE OF THE POWER OF DISMISSAL IN 1932
• XX. EXERCISE OF THE RESERVE POWER ON THE GROUND OF ILLEGALITY
• XXI. THE RESERVE POWER IN RELATION TO THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE DECLARATIONS OF 1926 AND 1930
• XXII. THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATES AND CANADIAN PROVINCES
• XXIII. TODD’S THESIS AS TO A GOVERNOR’S POWER TO REFUSE A DISSOLUTION
• XXIV. THE GRANT OF DISSOLUTION IN VICTORIA IN 1908–9
• XXV. TWO RECENT EXERCISES OF THE POWER OF DISSOLUTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH
• XXVI. TWO OLDER PRECEDENTS AFFECTING THE GOVERNOR’S POWER OF DISMISSAL
• XXVII. TODD’S GENERALIZATIONS AS TO THE RESERVE POWERS OF DISMISSAL AND DISSOLUTION
• XXVIII. LEADING TEXT-WRITERS ON THE RESERVE POWER OF THE CROWN
• XXIX. THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE ‘ELASTICITY’ OF THE RESERVE POWER
• XXX. THE IRISH FREE STATE’S CONTROL OF THE RESERVE POWERS
• XXXI. SOME PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING THE RESERVE POWER
• XXXII. CONSIDERATION OF SOME RELATED PROBLEMS
• APPENDIX—THE NEW STATUS OF SOUTH AFRICA
• INDEX