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The Crown Colony System

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Abstract

The stormy history of self-government in the Canadas was contemporary with the development, elsewhere in the empire, of the illiberal system of Crown colony government. Unknown by that name before 1828,3 it existed in many different forms in the conquered colonies of the West Indies, Ceylon, Mauritius and the Cape and in the settled colonies of New South Wales and Tasmania. Although its beginnings were in wartime arrangements for conquered colonies, it had precedents of a kind in British imperial experience. The Quebec Act of 1774 had established a form of government that embraced every essential feature of Crown colony government.4 Similarly, other colonies had been left without representative institutions and sometimes without any local means of making laws. Georgia, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Grenada were all, at various times in the eighteenth century, under the rule of the Crown, legislatively as well as administratively.

Until the accession of his present majesty, with the exception of a few inconsiderable factories on the coast of Africa, and a few not less inconsiderable in India, no body of Englishmen had ever been established as a colony on foreign soil, without partaking the enjoyment of the British constitution. The smallest rock in the West Indies exhibited a sort of miniature of the British constitution.

Sir James Mackintosh in the House of Commons, 18191

The experience of Ireland and of the W. Indies proves … that of all bad Govts by far the worst is that carried on under popular forms by a minority constantly dreading a successful resistance of the great majority of the population.

Howick to Melbourne, 3 January 18392

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Ward, J.M. (1976). The Crown Colony System. In: Colonial Self-Government. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02712-5_4

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