ABSTRACT
IN August 1914 King George V on the advice of the United Kingdom government declared war on Germany on behalf of the whole of the British Empire. In September 1939 King George VI on the advice of the United Kingdom government declared war on behalf of the United Kingdom, India, Burma, and the Colonial Empire, and on the separate advice of the governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand,1 and South Africa on behalf of each of these self-governing dominions. The contrast underlines at once the extent of the constitutional changes that had taken place in the intervening quarter of a century and their limitation.
