The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1891. UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURE.
We have not the slightest doubt that the Attorney General's advice to his colfeagu.es is exactly adapted to thendesires, or that he can find precedents of a kind to support it, but no disinterested person or constitutional lawyer will for a moment attempt seriously to defend the method by which Sir Harry Atkinson contrived his own appointment to the Chair of the Council. It is perfectly plain that his resignation as member for Egmont necessarily involves and carries with it his resignation as Premier, and as a further consequence the resignation of the Ministry as a whole. From the moment he ceases to be a member of the House of Eepresentatives he and they can only be regiu'ied as holding office pending the appolntiiK-nt) ami from Ministers m this position, wbo«c political responsibility is at an end, the Governor is not justi-
policy, or : an anything beyond mere routine. He certainly is not justified iv accepting their advice to appoint one of their number Speaker of the Council,
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 883, 28 January 1891, Page 2
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177The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1891. UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURE. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 883, 28 January 1891, Page 2
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