The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - Constitutional history |
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... EXERCISE A LARGER SHARE OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT : HIS POLICY , AND ITS EFFECTS — HIS RELATIONS WITH SUCCESSIVE MINISTERS DURING HIS REIGN . the influ- ence of the THE growth of the influence of the Crown , at a period ...
... EXERCISE A LARGER SHARE OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT : HIS POLICY , AND ITS EFFECTS — HIS RELATIONS WITH SUCCESSIVE MINISTERS DURING HIS REIGN . the influ- ence of the THE growth of the influence of the Crown , at a period ...
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... exercise . One had paid the penalty with his head : another with his crown ; and their family had been proscribed for ever . But now , if the prerogative was strained , the ministers were condemned , and not the king . If the people ...
... exercise . One had paid the penalty with his head : another with his crown ; and their family had been proscribed for ever . But now , if the prerogative was strained , the ministers were condemned , and not the king . If the people ...
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... exercise of power ; and his education , if other- wise neglected , had raised his estimate of the personal rights of a king , in the government of his country . So far back as 1752 , complaints had been made that the prince was ...
... exercise of power ; and his education , if other- wise neglected , had raised his estimate of the personal rights of a king , in the government of his country . So far back as 1752 , complaints had been made that the prince was ...
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... exercise of his prerogatives . The chief obstacle to this new policy of the court was found in the established authority of responsible ministers , up- held by party connexions and parliamentary interest . Accordingly , the first object ...
... exercise of his prerogatives . The chief obstacle to this new policy of the court was found in the established authority of responsible ministers , up- held by party connexions and parliamentary interest . Accordingly , the first object ...
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... exercise it himself . For this purpose he called to his aid lors . the Earl of Bute , and other secret counsellors , drawn from all parties . The greater number were of the Tory party , whose views of prerogative were Jacobite ...
... exercise it himself . For this purpose he called to his aid lors . the Earl of Bute , and other secret counsellors , drawn from all parties . The greater number were of the Tory party , whose views of prerogative were Jacobite ...
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Page 8 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 445 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...
Page 444 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 473 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 416 - Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it...
Page 59 - That it is now necessary to declare that to report any opinion or pretended opinion of His Majesty upon any Bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the Members, is a high crime and misdemeanor, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 493 - LORD, from the evil man ; and preserve me from the wicked man ; 2 Who imagine mischief in their hearts, and stir up strife all the day long. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips.
Page 444 - But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 483 - ... whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, or the morality of the pulpit, could furnish, had not been equal to what that House had that day heard in Westminster Hall.
Page 218 - ... such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign, and the gratitude of their country.