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Dominion Status In International Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
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At the Imperial Conference of 1926, the participating British governments agreed that the Dominions and Great Britain “ are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”
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1 Command No. 2768, reprinted in Supplement to this J ournal , April, 1927, p. 21.
2 Borden, Canadian Constitutional Studies, p. 119.
3 Canada, Sessional Paper, 1922, No. 47, p. 43.
4 Canada, Sessional Paper, 1922, No. 47, p. 44, sec.10.
5 Canada, Sessional Paper, 1923, No. 111A, pp. 11-14.
6 Command, 1923, No. 1987, p. 14.
7 U. S. Treaty Series, Nos. 718, 719, 720, 721.
8 13-14 George V, Canada, Cap. 14.
9 13-14 George V, Canada, Cap. 17.
10 14-15 George V, Canada* Cap. 9.
11 15-16 George V, Canada, Cap. 19.
12 Debates, House of Commons, Canada, 1920, Vol. 3, p. 2178.
13 See statement by Sir Cecil Hurst, cited 24 Mich. Law Rev., p. 267.
14 As e.g., in Can. Sess. Paper, 1925, No. 99 (Boundary Demarcation Treaty).
15 See Correspondence re Chicago Water Diversion, tabled,Canadian House of Commons, 30th June, 1926.
16 Sending and receiving diplomats, and making treaties, are accepted means of according tacit recognition. See Hall, Int. Law, 8th ed., p. 108; Oppenheim, 1905, Vol. 1, p. 110; Westlake, International Law, Part I, p. 49.
17 Hall, International Law, 8th ed., p. 17.
18 Hall, ibid., p. 23.
19 Hall, International Law, 8th ed., p. 25.
20 Hall, ibid., p. 26.
21 Hall, ibid., p. 27.
22 Hall, International Law., 8th ed., p. 28.
23 Hall, ibid., p. 32.
24 Hall, International Law, 8th ed., p. 31.
25 Dickinson, Equality of States, pp. 3-4.
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