 In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments....  Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 155by Sir William Blackstone - 1791Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1771 - 506 pages
...privilege of rejecting what the other has refolved : while the king is a check upon both, which prcferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...power is again checked and kept within due bounds by die two houfes, through the privilege they have of enquiring into, impeaching, and punifhing the conduct... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...check upon the people ; by ihe mutual privilege of rejecting what the other "Dill. 3. 9. has refolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preferves...impeaching, and punifhing the conduct (not indeed of the king ', which would deltroy his conflitutional independence; but, which is more beneficial to the public)... | |
 | 482 pages
...nobility a check upon the people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting •what the other has refolved : while the king is a check upon both, which preferves the executive power from encroachments. The lords fpiritual confift of two archbifliops and twenty-four bifhops. The lords temporal confift... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 678 pages
...plcliiJua ] fge injuriesfaflendaeftHfflatcrx atiemlt l avxs'iifinji& . Dt LL, 3. 9. has refolved : while the king is a check upon both, which preferves...from encroachments. And this very executive power is ag^in checked and kept within due bounds by the two houil-s, through the privilege they have of inquiring... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...plsb'u ma Irge injnrfac tbciendne potestntem adcmit. luxilii fcreodi reliqnit. DeLL.3. f,. preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
 | University of Oxford. Convocation - 1810 - 24 pages
...nobility a check upon the " people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting " what the other has refolved : while the King " is a check upon both ; which preferves...again checked " and kept within due bounds by the two " houiès, through the privilege they have of " enquiring into, impeaching, and puniihing " the conduft... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual privilege of reje&ipg what the other has refolved ; while the king is a check upon both, which preferves...have of inquiring into, impeaching, and p-unifhing thecondmft (not indeed of the king, which would deftroy his conftitutional independence; but which... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...plelnt tun lege isyurwefaciendae iiotettatcm ademil, au«iti* feresuK rttojuit. De LL. 3. 9. VOL. I. M , power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...lege injuriae faciendae pottHatem adtmti, attain* ferendi reliquit. Be LL. 3. 9. vOL. I. • M 155 power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved : while the king is a check upon both, which preserves k houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
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