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 crow...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:28:y:1934:i:05:p:895-900_02 2024-04-14T08:15:04+00:00 Newfoundland Reverts to the Status of a Colony MacKay, Robert A. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400026629/type/journal_article unknown https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400026629/type/journal_article article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:31:31Z 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 RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Indian |
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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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