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HistoryHISTORY or THE ADMINISTRATION THE slow but steady development of the principles of Responsible Government in Canada, under Lords Durham, Sydenham, Metcalfe, Elgin, Monck, and Lisgar, and the unswerving devotedness of LORD DUFFERIN to those principles, should make an historical account of his Administration acceptable to all interested in them. The system known in Canada as " Responsible Government " is simply an imitation of the Constitutional form of Government, which has since the reign of George III. Been slowly evolving itself in Great Britain. That Sovereign knew little of it; his son, George IV. , had no occasion to attempt any check to its growth : William IV. next |