DOMINIONS' STATUS
UNION WITH BRITAIN LINK SECURED BY KING * LONDON, May 9 Brigadier-General J. H. Morgan, K.C., Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London, in an article in the Morning Post, states: — " The British Parliament no longer legislates for the great Dominions except on their request and with their consent. " The Statute of Westminster may have seemed something like an abdication in that respect, but if it weakened one tie of Empire, the resolutions at the Imperial Conference, which preceded it, served to strengthen another. The resolutions, in dispossessing the Secretary of State of his historic function to advise the King on matters affecting the Dominions, substituted the Dominion Prime Ministers, who, for the first time, were given the right of direct access to His Majesty. " The result has been to bring into bold relief the fact that it is the King, and not Parliament, which secures, even as it sanctifies, the union of the Dominions with the Mother Country. It is a maxim of the law that the King is everywhere present in his Dominions, and a mighty maxim it is."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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