The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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Página 46
... Executive -the Premier as we should call him - to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the National As- sembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and familiar Republics , and in these the system was ...
... Executive -the Premier as we should call him - to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the National As- sembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and familiar Republics , and in these the system was ...
Página 47
... Executive and the Legis- lative authorities were united and fixed ; no one can assert such union to be the incommunicable attribute of a Constitutional Monarchy . But , unfortunately , we can as yet only infer from this experiment that ...
... Executive and the Legis- lative authorities were united and fixed ; no one can assert such union to be the incommunicable attribute of a Constitutional Monarchy . But , unfortunately , we can as yet only infer from this experiment that ...
Página 49
... executive autho- rity nearest to him did not like it . The experiment of a strictly Parliamentary Republic - of a Republic where the Parliament appoints the Executive - is being tried in France at an extreme disadvantage , because in ...
... executive autho- rity nearest to him did not like it . The experiment of a strictly Parliamentary Republic - of a Republic where the Parliament appoints the Executive - is being tried in France at an extreme disadvantage , because in ...
Página 52
... executive officer and to compare it with that of a Prime Minister ; and I devoted much space to showing that in one prin- cipal respect the English system is by far the best . The English Premier being appointed by the selection , and ...
... executive officer and to compare it with that of a Prime Minister ; and I devoted much space to showing that in one prin- cipal respect the English system is by far the best . The English Premier being appointed by the selection , and ...
Página 53
... so conclusive against the American Constitution , as a Constitution , as that incident . A hostile legislature and a hostile executive were so tied together , that the legislature tried INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 53.
... so conclusive against the American Constitution , as a Constitution , as that incident . A hostile legislature and a hostile executive were so tied together , that the legislature tried INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 53.
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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.