The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 24 1925

c. 35) of a constitution similar in principle to quote the words of the statute " to that of the United Kingdtm whereby the executive council was made Tesporisible to the Legislature " in the same way as the British Cabinet is resposible to Parliament transformed the revclted Canadians into loyal subjects of the British Empire and supplied Great Britain with the 'very best method for the r [...] in the articles of agreement for a treaty between Great Britilia and Ireland set forth in the Second Schedule of the Constitution of the Irish Free State Act 1922 whose second section enacts that the Constitution of the Irish Free-State shall be construed with reference to these articles the example of the Canadian Constitution is declared to be followed in the working of the Irish C01stitut [...] relationship of the Crown or the representative of the Crown and of the Imperial Parlia ment to the Dominion of Canada shall govern their relationship to the Irish Free State." The third article declares: " The representative of Crown in Ireland shall be appointed in like manner as the Governor-General of Canada and in accordance with the practice observed in the making of such appointments." T [...] On certain subjects of great national importance such as foreign affairs especially when it is to the interest of the State that the decision of Parliament should appear to be the unanimous decision of the nation it i.r a recognised covention that the consent of the Opposition to the proposals of the Government should be obtained by unofficial communications or at all events that-a serious [...] [These words written in 1908 have been abundantly verified by the atttude of the Opposition during the Great War.1 Another custom belonging to the same class of -Parliamentary usages is that of arriving or trying to arrive at some kind of compact as to the sneed at whiph the chief measures of a session shall be takeln and as to the distribution over the session of the work that has to be