| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 páginas
...Cabinet as 'a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legisbti« part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs tothe one, in its functions it belongs to the other.' But the Cabinet, he process (p. 15), 'though... | |
| 1917 - 914 páginas
...therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the State to...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." 6 Bagehot is aware of the importance of the difference between selection and election. Selection by... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 páginas
...and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the State to...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. Practically, then, the royal authority is in commission. We still have a Sovereign, but she reigns... | |
| 1889 - 560 páginas
...authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckh which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
| John William Burgess - 1890 - 436 páginas
...Privy Council, p. 68. . he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state." l Only one of these propositions, the first, is a definition of what the Cabinet is. The other is a... | |
| Charles Ellis Stevens - 1894 - 300 páginas
...20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." — -English Constitution, 14. 2 It would be a mistake to say, as many have said, that the personal... | |
| 1895 - 914 páginas
...our constitutional system — 'the hyphen,' to use the words of Mr. Bagehot, ' which joins the buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State," is not mentioned by writers like Blackstone and De Lolme. ' The cabinet," says Lord Macaulay, 'strange... | |
| 1895 - 808 páginas
...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." Again he calls it "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state."4 Every reader of Mr. Dicey's remarkable book on the Law of the Constitution, is acquainted... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - 1899 - 556 páginas
...executive and the legislature. A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the State to...belongs to the one ; in its functions it belongs to the other.1 We have next to consider the method and effects of the working of this institution in its actual... | |
| 1901 - 486 páginas
...we know the necessary essence. A cabinet is a combining committee — a HYPHEN which joins, a BUCKLE which fastens, the legislative part of the State to...so very little is known about it. The meetings are riot only secret in theory, but secret in reality. By the present practice, no official minute in all... | |
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