The Office of Lieutenant-Governor : A Study in Canadian Government and Politics / John Saywell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saywell, John, Author.

Series:

Canadian government series ; 9.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State governments--Canada.

State governments.

Lieutenant governors--Canada.

Lieutenant governors.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 302 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Many people with orderly minds tend to see in the office and functions of the Lieutenant-Governor simply a copy in essentials of what they profess to find at Westminster and Ottawa. The truth is that no very exact parallel between the two major governments can be drawn, and when the Lieutenant-Governor is brought into the comparison, the points in which he resembles the sovereign and the Governor-General are found to be almost as misleading as they are enlightening. Great developments in all three positions have occurred in the last seventy-five years, and the Lieutenant-Governorship has perhaps altered the least. It is this office and its history which form the subject of this book. The study by its very nature must be one primarily of precedents; and Dr. Saywell has unearthed an impressive number to augment the few which have hitherto been common knowledge. The result throws a great deal of light on a controversial office which in recent years has tended quite wrongly to be regarded as negligible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CONTENTS

NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER ONE. THE NATURE OF THE OFFICE

CHAPTER TWO. THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND HIS MINISTERS

CHAPTER THREE. THE INAUGURATION OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT IN MANITOBA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA

CHAPTER FOUR. THE SELECTION OF A PROVINCIAL PREMIER

CHAPTER FIVE. THE PREROGATIVE OF DISMISSAL

CHAPTER SIX. THE PREROGATIVE OF DISSOLUTION

CHAPTER SEVEN. A FEDERAL OFFICER

CHAPTER EIGHT. PROVINCIAL LEGISLATION

CHAPTER NINE. TENURE OF OFFICE

CHAPTER TEN. EPILOGUE

APPENDIXES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8381-8

OCLC:

1129178912