Colonies and Dependencies
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ISBN13: 9780217913027
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION. It has been thought advisable to give a sketch of the machinery at work before describing the framework of administration from outside. The people understand their District Officer best; of their Governor they have probably heard something; but the relation in which India stands to England, and the various counterchecks by which a theoretic despotism is modified, are to them unknown. The political constitution of India is regulated by a series of Acts of Parliament, which culminate in the Act of 1858 transferring the government from the Company to the Crown. By that statute it is enacted that India shall be governed by, and in the name of, the Queen now the Empress] through one of her principal Secretaries of State, assisted by a council The Secretary of State is a Cabinet Minister; and, according to the practice of the British constitution, he must have a seat in one of the two Houses of Parliament, while his Under-Secretary must sit in the other. Responsibility to Parliament is thus provided, with all that this entails. The Indian Budget is annually submitted to the House of Commons, though the ways and means are not voted in detail as with the English Budget Still it is recognised in countless matters that the English Parliament is really the supreme ruler of India. While all local legislation is left to the Council in India, certain subjects are specially reserved to Parliament?such as imposing charges on India for wars beyond her frontier; and the authority of Parliament is occasionally called in to remodel portions of the constitution. According to the strict letter of the law, the autocrat over India in the last resort is the Secretary of State. Nothing else would be consistent with the theory that the Queen-Empress is sove..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217913027 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217913024 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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