...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...

...historical, complex, august, theatrical parts, which it has inherited from a long past — which taJce the multitude — which guide by an insensible but...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powera Ho doubt by the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution...

...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,...