No Act passed by the Parliament of a self-governing colony can in any way contravene an Imperial statute; the governor of a self-governing colony is a real governor; appeals run to the English Privy Council from colonial Courts of Justice.
But it would not be true to say that the position of the Irish Parliament is assimilated to that of the legislature of a self-governing colony.
If any Act of Parliament might be called unconstitutional, uninvited intermeddling with the constitution of a self-governing colony would be so.
Does anybody doubt," he said, "that if Ireland were a thousand miles away from England she would not have been long before this a self-governing Colony?
Even the imposition of customs, though it has an important bearing on the interest of the Empire, is in a self-governing colony determined by the colonial, and not by the British, Parliament.
Can Ireland, close to the shore of Great Britain, occupy the position of a self-governing colony, such as New Zealand, divided from Great Britain by thousands of miles of sea?
But the new polity as a whole resembles in its essence neither the American Commonwealth nor the Canadian Dominion, nor the Government either of New Zealand or of any other self-governing colony.
Queensland, of which it is the capital, was separated from New South Wales and constituted a self-governing Colony in 1859.
Lord Durham was recalled, and, though his recommendations were ultimately carried into effect by making Canada a self-governing colony, he never recovered the unmerited disgrace he had suffered.
Canada was represented by some of the high officials of that self-governing colony.
The government is willing to grant absolute independence to Cuba, or what it would prefer, a self-governing colony, with relations like that of Canada to Great Britain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "governing colony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
