Extract from the Governor of Barbados' speech of 1st October, 1946 on the favoregation of to her baleet
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It seems to me, therefore, essential that the Executive should be based more clearly upon representation from the House of Assembly and thus linked more firmly with the Legislature.
35. On the assembling of the new House, therefore, the Officer Administering the Government will send for the person who appears to him to be best able to command a majority in the House of Assembly and will ask him to submit to him names from the House for membership of the Executive Committee, and Members of the Executive Committee will be asked respectively to take charge of the general policy relating to particular departments of Government for the purpose of dealing with the affairs of those Departments in Executive Committee and in the House of Assembly.
36. The Executive Committee will then in practice cease to be merely a collection of individuals nominated by the Governor for the purpose of advising him, and will become an effective organ of government accepting collective responsibility for policy, though the Governor must under the constitution as at present existing retain ultimate responsibility.
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Such an alteration in constitutional procedure will also bring, I trust, a new sense of responsibility to the House of Assembly. At present the House can reject Government measures, refuse supply, and confound Government policy in the calm assurance that the Government will carry on notwithstanding.
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