...there." 1 How Adams would have stood aghast, had he lived long enough to read Bagehot's declarations that "the efficient secret of the English Constitution...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers"; that "it is a remarkable peculiarity, a capital excellence of the British Constitution, that it contains...

...with the constitutional doctrines of so high an authority as Blackstone. The one conclusion is that "the efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers"; the second is that this fusion of the Government and the Legislature is achieved through the existence...

...did not conform to the theory. " The efficient secret of the English Constitution," says Bagehot, " may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers." (Eng. Const, p. 78.) He says elsewhere, " A cabinent is the combining committee — a hyphen which...

...invented by him, a fiction which misled Blackstone and Delolme. Hear Bagehot in his work upon the subject: "The efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers." And again: "The American Constitution was made upon a most careful argument, and most of that argument...

...is in the Cabinet that the effective work of legislation begins" (A). To cite Mr. Bagehot once more: "The efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers "(t). This system has been, as we have seen, in operation in most (f) The English Constitution, 5th...

...entfernte2). Bagehot (Federalist, S. 320, Anm. ): »The efficient secret of the system (des englischen) is the close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers«. Heute ist das englische Verfassungsleben, rein formal nach den großen Richtlinien betrachtet, dahin...

...the English historian and economist, thus interpreted the relations of the executive and legislature: The efficient secret of the English Constitution may...as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of executive and legislative powers. In commenting upon the extinction of the separation practice in this...

...EXECUTIVE (3) The Parliamentary Executive : Cabinet Government The Evolution of the Prime Minister ' The efficient secret of the English Constitution may...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. No doubt by the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution...

...Parliament is to talk to them and to be talked to by them'. Or as Bagehot, more memorably, put it: 'The efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers."5 Seeley did not emphasise, as Bagehot had, the mystification element in the 'dignified' parts...

...all, Walter Bagehot. Bagehot's famous assertion (first made in 1865 in the Fortnightly Review) that the "efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers" was so effective and celebrated a statement because he was the first to recognize and interpret for...