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The conference created the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Arthur Balfour, to look into future constitutional arrangements for the Commonwealth. In the end, the committee rejected the idea of a codified constitution , as espoused by South Africa's former Prime Minister Jan Smuts , but also fell short of endorsing the "end of ...
The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial prime ministers on 15 November 1926. [3] It was first proposed by South African Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Arthur Balfour, Earl of Balfour
The conference of 1930 decided to abolish the legislative supremacy of the British Parliament as it was expressed through the Colonial Laws Validity Act and other Imperial Acts. The statesmen recommended that a declaratory enactment of Parliament, which became the Statute of Westminster 1931 , be passed with the consent of the dominions, but ...
The 1926 imperial conference approved a committee report that stated: [A]part from provisions embodied in constitutions or in specific statutes expressly providing for reservation, it is recognised that it is the right of the Government of each Dominion to advise the Crown in all matters relating to its own affairs.
The change was agreed to at the Imperial Conference of 1926 and came to be official as a result of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and Statute of Westminster 1931. [ citation needed ] In a letter to King George V , whom he represented in Canada as governor general, Byng expressed surprise that Mackenzie King, a staunch nationalist , had ...
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The rest of the Report was an analysis of the political and legal implications of the Declaration. Significantly, the Statute of Westminster 1931, which implemented some aspects of the 1926 Imperial Conference, refers in its preamble to the "declarations and resolutions" in the reports of the conferences. Also, since the Declaration was penned ...