The Gaelic State in the past & future : $b or, "The crown of a nation"Figgis, Darrell
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The Gaelic State in the past & future : $b or, "The crown of a nation"
Figgis, Darrell
Ireland -- Politics and government; Irish question
Certain parts of government belong so essentially to the business of
the whole that they would not come under the review of any special
council. The Minister, or Ministers, in charge of these would be
responsible to none but the Nation, for they would directly concern the
Nation as a whole and not in any one of its parts. The chief of these
of course is finance. The only council which the Minister of Finance
could consult or advise would be the Assembly of Representatives, as
drawn directly, well or ill, from the people’s choice. All direct
money arrangements, such as taxes, the creation of debt or credit,
the purchase of properties or monopolies, and so forth, would lie in
his care, would arise at his initiative and would be solved by the
Assembly. The Senate could claim the right to debate any such measure,
and to suggest alterations, but whether the Assembly accepted or
rejected these alterations would lie at its own discretion.
There would be other matters of the same nature. The creation of
new forms or units of government, for example, or changes in the
constitution, where rendered necessary by changing conditions, or
any matter outside the range of the councils, or transcending their
capacity, or any new legislation at the initiative of one council that
would demand some independent measure to bring it into co-ordination
with the working of some other council, would all be of this kind, and
would lie at the initiative of the Chief Minister of State, who would
be responsible for the State to its elected President and would be
chosen by him to create the Ministry.
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