An Essay On the Government of Dependencies

to the dominant country, we proceed to certain disadvantages (affecting one or both of the related communities) which cannot be referred exclusively to either head. The disadvantages now in question are the respective inconveniences of the various forms which may be given to the immediate government of a dependency. For our present purpose, these various forms may be conveniently arranged under the following general descriptions, i. A body of persons representing the inhabitants of the dependency, or representing a larger or smaller part of them, exercises a constitutional control over the executive authority; or, in other words, it shares the powers of government, to a larger or smaller extent, with the authority in which the executive powers exclusively or principally reside. 2. The executive authority is not constitutionally controlled by any such body of representatives ; or, in other wordsl, the powers of govern- 1 (It is not correct to identify a case in which the executive authority is not constitutionally controlled by a body of representatives, with a case in which the powers of government are Chap. x. ment are exclusively possessed by the authority in -? which the executive powers are placed. In considering the inconveniences of the various forms which may be given to a subordinate government, we shall begin with the inconveniences of the forms which fall under the latter description. inconven- Where the form of the subordinate gove...