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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 77

Constitutional Reform

Constitutional Reform.

1.Elective Executive: The people elect the Parliament and the people's representatives should elect the executive. The present system by which one man selects the Cabinet has in practice produced results that render it certain that the judgment of the whole Parliament must raise the tone of Parliament and secure more capable men to administer the large departments of State.
2.Legislative Council Reform: page 34 That the present method of appointing the members of the Legislative Council be abolished, and if a second Chamber is to continue in existence it shall be appointed by the people's representatives in Parliament.
3.Referendum and the Initiative: difficulty of getting any one of the many issues always prominent on the occasion of a general election directly before the people renders it necessary that the people should have powers directly to initiate or veto a legislative proposal.