Newfoundland Reverts to the Status of a Colony
Newfoundland, which proudly boasts that she is “Britain's oldest colony,” which has enjoyed responsible government since 1855, and which has been ranked by the Statute of Westminister as one of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth of Nations, voluntarily reverted to the status of a crown c...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/1947412 2023-05-15T17:20:32+02:00 Newfoundland Reverts to the Status of a Colony MacKay, Robert A. 1934 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1947412 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003055400026629 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms American Political Science Review volume 28, issue 5, page 895-900 ISSN 0003-0554 1537-5943 Political Science and International Relations Sociology and Political Science journal-article 1934 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/1947412 2022-04-07T08:52:53Z Newfoundland, which proudly boasts that she is “Britain's oldest colony,” which has enjoyed responsible government since 1855, and which has been ranked by the Statute of Westminister as one of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth of Nations, voluntarily reverted to the status of a crown colony governed by a commission responsible to Whitehall. The event is without precedent in the history of the Empire. While certain West Indian colonies which have enjoyed representative assemblies have voluntarily given up their elected legislatures, no colony which had attained responsible government has ever before renounced it. The incident is sufficiently unique to be of interest alike to students of the history of the British Empire and of political science in general. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Indian American Political Science Review 28 5 895 900 |
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Newfoundland, which proudly boasts that she is “Britain's oldest colony,” which has enjoyed responsible government since 1855, and which has been ranked by the Statute of Westminister as one of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth of Nations, voluntarily reverted to the status of a crown colony governed by a commission responsible to Whitehall. The event is without precedent in the history of the Empire. While certain West Indian colonies which have enjoyed representative assemblies have voluntarily given up their elected legislatures, no colony which had attained responsible government has ever before renounced it. The incident is sufficiently unique to be of interest alike to students of the history of the British Empire and of political science in general. |
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