Responsible Government
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A term used in England and her colonial possessions to indicate an obligation to resign, on the part of the ministry, upon the declaration of a want of confidence by vote of the legislative branch of the colonial government. Mills, Col. Const. 27.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
This term generally designates that species of governmental system in which the responsibility for public measures or acts of slate rests upon the ministry or executive council, who are under an obligation to resign when disapprobation of their course is expressed by a vote of want of confidence, in the legislative assembly, or by the defeat of an important measure advocated by them.
Defined under Responsible in Black's Law Dictionary.