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The King and his dominion governors : a study of the reserve powers of the Crown in Great Britain and the dominions / by Herbert Vere Evatt.
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Publication details:
London : Oxford University Press, 1936.
Record id:
10767
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Subject:
Commonwealth law and history.
Crown privilege.
Prerogative, Royal -- Commonwealth countries.
Constitutional law -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
Contents:
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
A. South African case of 1914
B. Expenditure of public funds without parliamentary sanction
C. The Tasmanian case of 1924
D. Irish free state legislation
E. Sir Isaac Isaacs' ruling in 1931
F. Todd's doctrine as to 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.
Variant title:
Reserve powers of the Crown in Great Britain and the dominions
Phys. description:
xvi, 324 pages ; 23 cm