The Balfour
Declaration
The Dominions
were:
autonomous communities within the British
Empire, equal in status, in no way one
subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic
or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the
Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth
of Nations.
The Statute of
Westminster
•brought an end to the British claim to make laws binding on
the Dominions without their consent
•declared that a Dominion parliament could repeal laws
previously passed for them by Britain