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单词 responsible government
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responsible government
responsible government government which is accountable to the people; spec. a political system in which governments and individual ministers are drawn from and accountable to parliament, esp. the lower house, rather than to a monarch or similar power.Frequently with reference to the colonial territories of the former British Empire.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > other types of government
regency1643
myriarchy1650
responsible government1782
charter-government1796
co-government1834
minority government1859
internationalism1879
minority rule1886
Labour government1892
provisional government1916
paepae1937
1782 G. Sharp Claims People of Eng. 9 It is therefore become absolutely necessary, for the Security both of King and People,..that the just ‘Claims of the People’ be satisfied in an immediate Restoration of the antient legal and responsible Government, by a Revival of the two repealed Articles of the Act of Settlement.
1793 C. F. Greville Brit. India Analyzed III. xix. 878 The opinion of both parties coincided in the necessity of a strong responsible government.
1831 Times 22 Aug. 3/3 He was convinced that Ireland would be materially benefitted by the establishment of a local responsible Government in the different counties, authorized by Parliament to communicate with the Government of the country.
1906 W. S. Churchill in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. i. 506 We are not, of course, confined to any particular form of Responsible Government.
1910 Colonial Office List v. i. 633 The colonies possessing responsible government, in which the Crown has only reserved the power of disallowing legislation and the Secretary of State for the Colonies has no control over any public officer except the Governor.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 174/2 The device known as dyarchy, or double government,..was intended to train Indians for responsible government.
2001 D. R. Owram in R. W. Winks Oxf. Hist. Brit. Empire vii. 150 The real significance of responsible government was the proof it gave of Canada's central role in the Empire.
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