ABSTRACT
THE vagueness and uncertainty of the rules governing the exercise of the reserve powers of dismissal, dissolution, and veto by the Crown in England, or its representative in the Dominions, has now been sufficiently demonstrated. Even when May wrote that
‘the unwritten law of the British Constitution assumes the mutual forbearance of the bodies among whom power is distributed, and had gradually shaped itself at Westminster in usages and constitutional conventions, which indicated clearly when and how this forbearance should be exercised’, 1
