Current Thought

The capitalistic and financial affiliations of the real rulers of England and of the vast majority of the members of Parliament do not raise any hope of abolition of imperialism in the post-war world. [...] The Government of the Union world consist of an executive of five citizens three elected directly by the citizens of the union and one by the House of Deputies and one by the Senate ; a bicameral legislature House of Deputies and Senate composed respectively of 277 and 42 members elected according to the populations of the units of the Federation ; and a High Court of Judicature composed of not [...] Under Pitt's India Act 1784 1 the Board of Commissioners were set tip for the superintendence and control of the affairs of the East India Company conducted by the Court of Directors and as such the letter of instructions to Corwallis dated lath April 1786 the Decennial Settlement of 1789 and the Regulations of 1793 could not be issued without the sanction of the Board which amounted to t [...] (2) The Statute of Westminster 1931 abolishes the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament the supremacy of the Privy Council and the supremacy of the British Crown in respect of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth and restates as a legal rule the doctrine of ministerial responsbility confirmed in the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 193c). [...] Thus if the Governor feel that any legislation for the abolition of the Permanent Settlement would incense the landholding community and shatter the economic structure and class relations in a way as to threaten the peace of the land and that the feelings of the landholding community are genuine and pitched on the key of indignation with good reasons the Govemor may step in and negative such legi