...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...

...the executive government is vested in the sovereign. On this subject the late Mr. Bagehot remarks: "The efficient secret of the English constitution...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory as it exists in all the books; the goodness of our constitution...

...the cióse union, the nearly complete fus.ioi., of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution consists in the en;'re separation of the legislative and executive authorities, but in truth its merit consists in...

...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...

...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...

...procedure led, in the years following, to ministerial encroachment on the equality of private and gov2. "The efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. . . . The connecting link is the cabinet ... A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...

...English Constitution, the Earl of Derby, a member of the House of Lords, was prime minister.35 33. "The efficient secret of the English Constitution...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers . . . The connecting link is the cabinet . . . The cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen...

...employing the Whip. Bagehot characterised this organic link between the legislature and the executive thus: the efficient secret of the English Constitution may...nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative power.119 This arrangement certainly expedites matters but others have been more hesitant in praise,...