...latent unity. Since- the Reform Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills on which the House of Commons is not vet thoroughly in earnest — upon which the nation is not yet determined. Their veto is a sort of...

...a latent unity. Since the Reform Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills; it can reject Bills on which the House of Commons is not yet thoroughly in earnest—upon which the nation is not yet determined. Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto. They...

...an equal branch of the government. ' The House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills on which...reject your bill for this once, or these twice, or these thrice ; but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it. The House has ceased to...

...its mind on any measure, the Lords are powerless to resist. As Bagehot says, their veto is : — " We reject your Bill for this once, or these twice,...on sending it up, at last we won't reject it." The Senate of Canada has larger powers than these. It cannot merely delay Legislation, as it very wisely...

...a latent unity. Since the Reform Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills on which...even these thrice : but if you keep on sending it x1p, at last we won't reject it. The House has ceased to be one of latent directors, and has become...

...an equal branch of the Government. 'The House of Lords has become a revising and suspeijding House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills, on which...of hypothetical veto. They say, We reject your Bill fur this once, or these twice, or these thrice ; but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't...

...well indicated by Bagehot in his brilliant work on the English constitution. He says of the Lords: " Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto. They say : We reject your bill this once, or these twice, or even these thrice ; but if you keep sending it up, at the last we won't...

...He says of the Lords : " Their veto is a so1 t of hypothetical veto. They say : We reject your bill this once, or these twice, or even these thrice ; but if you keep sending it up, at the last we won't reject it. The House has ceased to be one of latent directors,...

...He says of the Lords : " Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto. They say : \Ve reject your bill this once, or these twice, or even these thrice ; but if you keep sending it up, at the last we won't reject it. The House has ceased to be one of latent directors,...

...necessary to exert it. Since the Eef orm Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending house. It can alter bills ; it can reject bills on which...keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it." Sagehot: English Constitution, 99. " In theory it has a coordinate power with the King, and the House...