...of the Executive and a part of the Legislature. ' It is a hyphen '/ says Bagehot, ' which joins, and a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part.' It is controlled by Parliament, but it also exercises great influence on it, supplying it with necessary...

...control chosen by the legislature out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation. ... A combining committee — a hyphen which joins —...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." As will be inferred from the foregoing, a cabinet minister must possess a seat in one or other branch...

...147. automatically dissolved, though it may be re-formed under another chief." The Cabinet being " the buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part,"* the potential power of its principal member is necessarily very great. As the Crown is the fountain...

...century than a hundred years later that the gradually evolving cabinet constituted, in Bagehot's words, "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the...legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state."106 The absence of the cabinet system from Montesquieu's portrait 104 Federalist Paper No. 47....

...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. . . . The connecting link is the cabinet ... A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other" (Bagehot 1963:64, 68). ernment bills or Orders of the Day. Ministers claimed the press of business...

...cabinet is the link between the parliament and the executive. "A Cabinet is combining committee—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other" (Bagehot 1961, 71-72; emphasis in original). Of course the extent to which the cabinet is related to...

...efficient parts those by which it. in fact, works and rules. 779 The English Constitution 'The Cabinet' ngs has none to lose. 780 The English Constitution 'The Cabinet' It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her...

...knows, to rule the nation . . . The first and cardinal consideration is the definition of a cabinet ... a cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...part of the state to the executive part of the state" (1928, 9-12, Bagehot's italics). 34. In The English Constitution, Bagehot frequently refers to "Parliament"...

...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. . . . The connecting link is the Cabinet. ... A Cabinet is a combining committee - a hyphen which...which fastens, the legislative part of the State. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. (Walter Bagehot, The...

...cardinal consideration is the definition of a cabinet. We must not bewilder ourselves with the separable accidents until we know the necessary essence. A cabinet...state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its function it belongs to the other. The most curious point about the cabinet is that so very little is...