 | Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...more Constitutional, more normal, or more thoroughly useful than that of ingeminating political peace. The right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn, were the three prerogatives which Walter Bagehot ascribed to the British Sovereign; and he added, shrewdly... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - Great Britain - 1880 - 318 pages
...claim to be, Mr. Bagehot, who, in his work on the ' English Constitution,' lays down the doctrine that the Sovereign has ' three rights — the right to...consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn.' Beyond these limits the Queen is not allowed to go. She cannot compel a Ministry to take a particular... | |
 | sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 306 pages
...claim to be, Mr. Bagchot, who, in his work on the ' English Constitution,' lays down the doctrine that the Sovereign has ' three rights — the right to...consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn.' Beyond these limits the Queen is not allowed to go. She cannot compel a Ministry to take a particular... | |
 | Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - Democracy - 1880 - 208 pages
...the sake of a party triumph. Walter Bagehot, in his treatise on the British Constitution, asserted, " The sovereign has three rights: the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn, and a king of great sense and sagacity should want no others." With all these rights... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 774 pages
...generally extraneous. "The sovereign," says Walter Bagehot, " has under a constitutional monarchy the three rights the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn." Add to this the right to steal, and behold the boss. Elsewhere, speaking of the monarchy, Bagehot has... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Success - 1902 - 710 pages
...generally extraneous. "The sovereign," says Walter Bagehot, " has under a constitutional monarchy the three rights, the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn." Add to this the right to steal, and behold the boss ! Elsewhere, speaking of the monarchy, Bagehot... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1903 - 514 pages
...nevertheless deservedly great. And in the modified sense of the prerogative it has been said that the Crown has three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the ripht to warn. Yet even now the power and prerogative of the Crown, and also its duties, are considerable.... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Great Britain - 1908 - 600 pages
...influence has been substituted for power ; or as Bagehot puts it in his own emphatic way, the Crown has "three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others."3 But after the advice... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1912 - 680 pages
...empowered to veto any bill passed by Parliament, but he never exercises this power. He has in reality only the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn. He cannot permanently oppose the wishes of the majority in Parliament, for should he venture to do... | |
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Bagehot, the sovereign has three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn. 
