...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...

...edn 1999), pp 276-81. (e) Parliament and the executive As long ago as 1867 Walter Bagehot highlighted 'the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers' (The English Constitution (1963 edn), p 65). The executive is headed (under the Queen as formal and...

...confusion of mind on the part of the great publicist in dealing with this subject. Bagehot declares that "the efficient secret of the English constitution...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers." Perhaps Montesquieu meant to connote the division of powers rather than to condemn their co-ordination,...

...complacency by Walter Bagehot. More than that, he found the "efficient secret of the English Constitution" in "the close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers." He admitted that according to the traditional theory the "goodness of our Constitution consists in...