The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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Página 31
... said in this book that it would very much surprise people if they were only told how many things the Queen could do with out consulting Parliament , and it certainly has so proved , INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 31.
... said in this book that it would very much surprise people if they were only told how many things the Queen could do with out consulting Parliament , and it certainly has so proved , INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 31.
Página 32
... Queen abolished Purchase in the Army by an act of prerogative ( after the Lords had rejected the bill for doing so ) , there was a great and general astonishment . But this is nothing to what the Queen can by law do without consulting ...
... Queen abolished Purchase in the Army by an act of prerogative ( after the Lords had rejected the bill for doing so ) , there was a great and general astonishment . But this is nothing to what the Queen can by law do without consulting ...
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... Queen . " This counsel to her so to use her prerogative would by the Judge be declared to be an act of violence ... Queen's army , and it would be done for certain . But suppose a Minister were to reduce the army or the navy much below ...
... Queen . " This counsel to her so to use her prerogative would by the Judge be declared to be an act of violence ... Queen's army , and it would be done for certain . But suppose a Minister were to reduce the army or the navy much below ...
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... Queen , but really the Prime Minister , has the power of dissolving the Assembly . But M. Thiers has no such power ; and therefore , under ordinary circumstances , I believe , the policy would soon become unmanageable . The result would ...
... Queen , but really the Prime Minister , has the power of dissolving the Assembly . But M. Thiers has no such power ; and therefore , under ordinary circumstances , I believe , the policy would soon become unmanageable . The result would ...
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... Queen's servants . Remnants , important remnants , of this great prerogative still remain . The discriminating favour of William IV . made Lord Melbourne head of the Whig party when he was only one of several rivals . At the death of ...
... Queen's servants . Remnants , important remnants , of this great prerogative still remain . The discriminating favour of William IV . made Lord Melbourne head of the Whig party when he was only one of several rivals . At the death of ...
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Página 162 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 315 - After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Página 44 - ... she could sell off all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'university'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders. In a word, the Queen could by prerogative upset all the action of civil government within the government, could...
Página 102 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
Página 98 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.