The Crown is represented by the Governor-General in the government of the ACT.

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

It also recommended that the governors-general, the representatives of the King who acted for the Crown as de facto head of state in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government in diplomatic relations between the countries.

The British government had intended that the Crown take over the operation of the mines when Cape Breton was made a colony, but this was never done, probably because of the rehabilitation cost of the mines.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

However the Glorious Revolution ( 1688 ), which established constitutional government, led to a reformulation of Toryism which now considered sovereignty vested in the three estates of Crown, Lords, and Commons.

Primarily, these are the Orders in Council, which give the government the authority to declare war, conclude treaties, issue passports, make appointments, make regulations, incorporate, and receive lands that escheat to the Crown.

Crown Colony government was re-established in 1896.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

What did change was that bishops were now seen to be ministers of the Crown for the spiritual government of its subjects.

The government also employs five lawyers ; the Attorney General, Principal Crown Counsel, Senior Crown Counsel, Crown Counsel and a Legislative Drafter.

* 1830-The British government changes the status of Gibraltar from The town and garrison of Gibraltar in the Kingdom of Spain to the Crown Colony of Gibraltar.

The government of Spain continues with an irredentist territorial claim to Gibraltar, which was ceded in perpetuity to the British Crown in 1713 by Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht.

In 1872 the first secondary school was built. On 3 December 1877 Grenada's old representative system of government was replaced by the pure Crown Colony model.

Partly as a result of Marryshow's lobbying the Wood Commission of 1921-1922 concluded that Grenada was ready for constitutional reform in the form of a ' modified ' Crown Colony government.

" Because of Moseley's death in World War I, the British government instituted a policy of no longer allowing its prominent and promising scientists to enlist for combat duty in the armed forces of the Crown.

As a Crown Dependency, it is not subordinate to the government of the United Kingdom.

That government, however, is responsible for defence and external affairs and could intervene in the domestic affairs of the isle under its residual responsibilities to guarantee " good government " in all Crown Dependencies.

In the United Kingdom, The Crown ( which, for practical purposes, meant the civil service ) did not insure property such as government buildings.

Within the United Kingdom government, responsibility for relations between Jersey ( and the other Crown dependencies ) and the United Kingdom lie in the Crown Dependencies Branch within the International Directorate of the Ministry of Justice, which has a core team of three officials, with four others and four lawyers available when required.

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

The Premier then directs the Governor to appoint other members of parliament to the Executive Council of New South Wales known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor will take direction on the use of executive power, an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.

The Act of Union 1840, passed July 23, 1840, by the British parliament and proclaimed by the Crown on February 10, 1841, merged the two colonies by abolishing the parliaments of Upper and Lower Canada and replacing them with a single one.

Per the Constitution Act, 1982, any constitutional amendment that affects the Crown, including the Office of the Governor General, requires the unanimous consent of each provincial legislature as well as the federal parliament.

The prime minister then directs the governor general to appoint other members of parliament to a committee of the privy council known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor general will take direction on the use of executive power ; an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.

Molde was in effect the capital of Norway for a week after King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the government and parliament arrived at Molde on April 23, after a dramatic flight from Oslo.

The consent of the Crown must, however, be obtained before either of the houses of parliament may even debate a bill affecting the sovereign's prerogatives or interests, and no act of parliament binds the Queen or her rights unless the act states that it does.

To unionists, the state had full legitimacy, as did its institutions, its parliament, the Crown and its police force.

In 1366, in order for the English Crown to assert its authority over the settlers, a parliament was assembled in Kilkenny and the Statute of Kilkenny was enacted.

" Further, the state of Queensland deleted all references to the monarchy from its legislation, with new laws being enacted by its parliament, not the Queen, and " binding on the State of Queensland ," not the Crown.

Until the 1970s, the Treaty was generally ignored by both the courts and parliament, although it was usually depicted in New Zealand history as a generous act on the part of the Crown.

All action ceased when Crown Prince Frederick sent his Adjutant General, a Danish member of parliament, Hans Lindholm, asking for the reason for Nelson's letter.

This parliament operated under major restrictions, including Poynings ' Law and the Penal Laws, imposed by the English and British Crown, by the English and British Parliament and by the King-in-Council.

# Other Ministers of the Crown, in chronological order of appointment to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada ( then in order of election or appointment to parliament if they joined the Privy Council on the same day ), followed by Ministers of State

The Privy Council, not the parliament, was the chief loser by the change ; and, inasmuch as henceforth the Councillors were appointed by the king, and were to be responsible to him alone ; a Council in opposition to the Crown was barely conceivable.

A parliament that, though Protestant establishment in membership and loyal to the Crown, in 1782 produced the first real attempt at Irish independence, achieving the ' Constitution of 1782 ' that stressed its loyalty to the King by virtue of his Irish, not British Crown.

Although prime ministers have answered questions in parliament for centuries, until the 1880s questions to the prime minister were treated the same as questions to other Ministers of the Crown: asked without notice, on days when ministers were available in whatever order MPs rose to ask them.

A Convention Parliament is a parliament in English history which, owing to an abeyance of the Crown, assembled without formal summons by the Sovereign.

" The federal Cabinet and Crown counsel took the position that if the British Crown in council, parliament, and on the bench was to exercise its sovereignty over Canada, it did so at the request of the federal ministers only.

As such, the sovereignty of the each is passed on not by the governor general or federal parliament, but through the overreaching Crown itself as a part of the executive, legislative, and judicial operations in Canada's eleven ( one federal and ten provincial ) legal jurisdictions ; though singular, linking the various governments into a federal state, the Crown is thus " divided " into eleven " crowns ".