...baloney even in the mid-nineteenth century — the high point of classical parliamentary government: The efficient secret of the English Constitution may...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. In Bagehot's view this 'fusion' of powers, in conjunction with the aforementioned parliamentary constraints,...

...think it is - is narrowly confined to nations with an analogous history and similar political relics. The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the 1 'from the meaning of the term* close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative...

...devoted much space to its analysis as an aspect of the separation of powers.18 Bagehot's remark that 'the efficient secret of the English constitution...nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative power' relates to the intermix of persons and membership as distinct 17 On all of this, see particularly...

...sovereign reigns but does not govern. "The efficient secret of the English Constitution," wrote Bagehot, "may be described as the close union, the nearly complete...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers." 35 That fusion takes place in the cabinet. But as Bagehot went on to explain, "[t]he English system...

...political commentator Walter Bagehot, the author of a famous textbook on the Constitution, wrote that 'the efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the newly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers . . . The connecting link is the Cabinet.'...

...abolition of the Senate. 107 What Bagehot calls the 'efficient secret' of the English Constitution, "the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers" (Bagehot, The English Constitution, 8). 108 It should be noted that while section 47 of the Constitution...

...in the Westminster system, the legislative and executive powers were not so much separated as fused. The efficient secret of the English constitution may...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers .... The connecting link is the Cabinet ... a combining committee - a hyphen which joins, a buckle...

...97 Ibid, 80-81,103-5. 98 Ibid, 10. exercise of government required, the 'efficiency' was secured in the 'close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers'.100 This was the only balance that mattered to Bagehot. An 'efficient' constitution, Bagehot...

...references. that also could have been achieved by the legislature. Walter Bagehot famously stated that "the efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union . . . of the executive and legislative powers" in the Cabinet.3 Yet even more widely, throughout the...

...Walter Bagehot proclaimed in 1867 to be 'the efficient secret of the English constitution', namely 'the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers' (Bagehot 2001, pp. 8-9). In spite of all the voices of opposition that were heard in the decades after...