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electoral mind — a microcosmus of the world it would represent. The 

 legislature of the country would become a focal center, where all the 

 currents of national life would mingle unembittered by party feeling, 

 where all aspirations and impulses would come into friendly contact, 

 where the different rays of public opinion would meet under the most 

 favorable conditions, to modify each other into a unity of expression. 



Among the important consequences to which a rectification of Parlia- 

 ment as proposed, would lead, there would necessarily be a modification 

 in the formation of the executive, and in the relation of the ministry to 

 Parliament and the people. 



In order to maintain the harmonious operation of every branch of 

 government, the chief executive and administrative body ought to be in 

 full unison with Parliament ; that is to say, Ministers of the Crown 

 should have the entire confidence of the representatives of the people. 

 As in Great Britain, we retain in the Dominion the form of Monarchy in 

 connection with democratic principles. In all forms of government there 

 must be a central authority, from which the national power for the 

 time emanates ; the same holds true in this respect in a Republic as in a 

 constitutional monarchy; it is from this source appointments to office 

 are made, including those constituting the supreme executive. Follow- 

 ing this principle, ministers should continue to be appointed by the 

 representative of the Sovereign ; public policy, however, would exact 

 that the chief advisers of the Crown should be chosen from and sup- 

 ported by, if not actually nominated by, Parliament. We would thus 

 secure harmonious action and obtain the needed guarantees that "the 

 wishes and interests of the people would on all occasions be faithfully 

 represented and guarded." • 



The intimate relations between the Executive, Parliament and the 

 people, between the government and the governed, would give to the chief 

 administrative body, the greatest possible stability. It would stand as a 

 central unit to command universal respect. The government so formed 

 would not be greater than Parliament, it would be the executive of 

 Parliament to exercise all the power deputed to Parliament by the people. 

 The executive would be supported by and be amenable to Parliament, and 

 for the reason that Parliament would represent the whole people, the gov- 

 ernment would rest on the broad basis of the entire nation. Thus we 

 would establish our constitutional structure in a manner and with material 

 so good that it could not be easily shaken. Its foundation would consist 

 of a great electoral body comprising the best of the mass of the community. 

 Its superstructure, a representative body of the best of the whole body 



