The Role of the Governor-General in Ceylon

Ceylon is one of the few non-European members of the Commonwealth which has been reasonably successful in adapting the Westminster-style government to suit its own requirements. There are difficulties in operating the system-a heterogeneous population comprising religious, cultural, linguistic and caste groups whose differences are not seldom accentuated by the island's slow rate of economic growth-but despite these, it could be said from the experience of nearly twenty years of Parliament's working, that the willingness of parties and groups to differ on a constitutional plane with all the necessary corollaries of elections, political meetings, a legally established government and a recognized opposition is the generally accepted norm of political behaviour in Ceylon today

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• Breaching a precedent

  James Manor•The Round Table•1984

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• The Government of Canada

  R Macgregor Dawson•University of Toronto Law Journal•1948

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• Government and Parliament

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• Ceylon

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• The New Commonwealth and its Constitutions

  J E S Fawcett•International Affairs•1964

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• An Asian Prime Minister's Story

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• Ceylon

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• The Constitution of Ceylon

  Elisabeth Wallace, Ivor Jennings•Pacific Affairs•1952

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