Examples Of Anti Despotism

The thought of anti-despotism also can be seen in the pluralization of power. One prevention in order to avoid despotism depends on making a check to the despotic power, and members of Parliament made it concrete by inventing two measures. The first is to give someone a right to remove officers other than a governor, and the second is to give a negative against the legislature in colonies. The important is that they thought the Regulating Act as a useful precedent when they enacted the Quebec Act.

The first point can be seen in the argument by George Johnstone, who demanded a restriction of the governor of Quebec. What he was afraid was that a governor could gain despotic power in Quebec by removing members in the Legislative Council without

When Lord North stated, in the dispute on the Quebec Act, French law with a reference to the negative which the judicature had to the legislative, Dempster objected to him, arguing “we have a precedent much nearer home.” “Mr. Dempster replied”, London Evening Post reports, “that he was surprised to hear such an objection started by the noble lord, as the clause was exactly framed on one inserted in the East-India Government Bill, which gave the Chief Justice such a negative on the proceedings of the governor-General and Council in

Montesquieu’s argument let British people know the importance of the role which legislations had to play on government and the meaning of judicature in a government. Such a political thought came to be realized in two parts of the British new empire―East India and Quebec. Here, it was discussed what kind of laws were adequate for colonies one by one in order to avoid any kind of despotism. Concretely speaking, it was focused on that local laws and customs were to be preserved and that there would be checks and balances in legislated colonies. The latter contrivance embodied as two regulations; the right to restrict the removal of governors in a colony and the judicature’s negative to the executive. It might seem trivial, but it was important for the Britain to make adaptable bills for colonies, and such minute institutional regulation were essential for the preservation of laws. And in this point, the debate and bills on East India were very important for Quebec, for they were precedents which Quebec laws should follow, or at least take into