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- Title
Pour en finir avec 1848 ! (2e partie): Les deux facettes du gouvernement responsable aux parlements de Kingston et de Montréal.
- Authors
BLAIS, CHRISTIAN
- Abstract
In a Westminster-style political system, the convention of responsible government means that executive advisers must be members of Parliament and that, in order to govern, these ministers must enjoy the confidence of the majority of MPs. According to this definition, it appears that in the Parliament of the Province of Canada, the principle of ministerial responsibility was established as early as 1841, and not in 1848 as the dominant historiographical trend would have it. Reformers Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin embodied this constitutional convention to such an extent that a myth was created around their liberal political actions. However, these partisan politics overshadowed the Conservative government which, from 1844 to 1848, also administered the colony according to the principles of the 1840 Constitution.
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY; AUTHORSHIP; HISTORICITY; PHILOSOPHY of history; SUBJECTIVITY in historiography
- Publication
Cahiers des Dix, 2021, Vol 75, p201
- ISSN
0575-089X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1088876ar