Colonie de la Couronne

A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony administered by the Crown within the English and later British Empire. There was usually a governor to represent the Crown, appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the UK Government, with or without the assistance of a local council. In some cases, this council was split into two: an executive council and a legislative council, and the executive council was similar to the Privy Council that advises the monarch. Members of executive councils were appointed by the governors, and British citizens resident in Crown colonies either had no representation in local government, or limited representation in a lower house. In several Crown colonies, this limited representation grew over time. As the House of Commons of the British Parliament has never included seats for any of the colonies, there was no direct representation in the sovereign government for British subjects or citizens residing in Crown colonies. The administration of Crown colonies changed over time and in the 1800s some became, with a loosening of the power of royal governors, self-governing colonies, within which the sovereign state (the UK Government) delegated legislation for most local internal matters of governance to elected assemblies, with consent of the governor. The elected assemblies had their beginnings in the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia in 1619 and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Bermuda in 1620. While initially limited in government, over the centuries in some Crown colonies, more independent authority was given. All remaining British colonies, whether Crown (such as Hong Kong and the Falkland Islands) or self-governing (such as Bermuda), were renamed "British Dependent Territories" from 1 January 1983 under the British Nationality Act 1981. Many British citizens in the colonies (with the exceptions of the Falkland Islanders and subsequently the Gibraltarians) found that their "Citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies" From 2002, the dependent territories have been known officially as British Overseas Territories.

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Conseil législatif

Un conseil législatif est un organe du pouvoir législatif dont la forme varie selon les lieux et les époques. Il s'agit parfois de l'organe principal du pouvoir législatif (ex. : Conseil législatif de Brunei, Conseil législatif palestinien, Conseil législatif de Hong Kong) ou parfois la chambre haute du Parlement (ex. : Conseil législatif du Québec, Conseils législatifs en Inde, Conseil législatif du Bas-Canada).

Australie

LAustralie, en forme longue le Commonwealth d'Australie (Australia et Commonwealth of Australia), est un pays d'Océanie, situé entre les océans Pacifique et Indien. Elle comprend la partie continentale du continent australien, l'île de Tasmanie ainsi que de nombreuses petites îles. Elle est entourée par l'Indonésie, le Timor oriental et la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée au nord, les îles Salomon, le Vanuatu et la Nouvelle-Calédonie au nord-est et la Nouvelle-Zélande au sud-est.

Self-governing colony

In the British Empire, a self-governing colony was a colony with an elected government in which elected rulers were able to make most decisions without referring to the colonial power with nominal control of the colony. This was in contrast to a Crown colony, in which the British Government ruled and legislated via an appointed Governor, with or without the assistance of an appointed Council. Most self-governing colonies had responsible government.