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The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 9 1945

1945

For good reasons or bad a straight vote on a major issue has come to be regarded as the proper costitutional method of ascertaining whether the House is on the side of the Ministry or opposed to it and once the House has declared itself against the Ministry the latter cannot properly disregard the vote without destroying the efficacy of the rule. [...] In general it may be stated that were a Ministry to be permitted to claim depite an adverse vote that it still enjoyed the confidence of the House and that the vote was mileading as the next voting would show there could be no end to such temporising and a Parlimentary vote would cease to be an index of the opinion of the House. [...] XLIX Accordini to English practice an adverse vote in the Legislature on a question of cofidence is generally followed by resignation of the Ministry or an appeal to the electorate by dissolUtion or in extreme cases by dismissal of the Ministry by the Crown. [...] Thus the first and second Diraeli Ministries the third Gladstone Ministry the first MacDonald Ministry and the second Baldwin Ministry to quote some instances only resigned immediately upon an adverse vote at the polls while the first and second Salisbury Ministries and the first Baldwin Ministry though returned in a minority awaited a vote of no confidence before resignation. [...] In 1895 the Government of the day was defeated on a vote in committee of supply and resigned office but the same course was not followed in 1904 or 1905." We have said above that the vote in the present case seems to us to have required the resignation of the Ministers.
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India
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sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 9 1945
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