| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...that it should be chosen by the Legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. Practically, then, the royal authority is in commission. We still have a Sovereign, but she reigns... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 914 pages
...veto — a committee with a power of appeal." The Cabinet therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." 6 Bagehot is aware of the importance of the difference between selection and election. Selection by... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1889 - 480 pages
...legislative and executive authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
| Religion - 1889 - 560 pages
...authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckh which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
| John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 462 pages
...Bagehot, The English Constitution, p. 81. 2io The Constitution of the Executive. he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle...of the state to the executive part of the state." 1 Only one of these propositions, the first, is a definition of what the Cabinet is. The other is a... | |
| Charles Ellis Stevens - Political Science - 1894 - 334 pages
...power of 1 May, Constitutional History of England, I. 19, 20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." — English Constitution, 14. 2 It would be a mistake to say, as many have said, that the personal... | |
| Electronic journals - 1895 - 808 pages
...by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." Again he calls it "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the...legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state."4 Every reader of Mr. Dicey's remarkable book on the Law of the Constitution, is acquainted... | |
| Law - 1895 - 914 pages
...mainspring of our constitutional system — 'the hyphen,' to use the words of Mr. Bagehot, ' which joins the buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State," is not mentioned by writers like Blackstone and De Lolme. ' The cabinet," says Lord Macaulay, 'strange... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - Democracy - 1899 - 556 pages
...Cabinet — forming what Mr. Bagehot calls the connecting link between the executive and the legislature. A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...belongs to the one ; in its functions it belongs to the other.1 We have next to consider the method and effects of the working of this institution in its actual... | |
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