To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. The English Constitution - Page 75by Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...sums up royal powers or " rights " under a constitutional monarchy such as that of England under " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." All these may exist without any direct influence on the course of public measures. A very able sovereign... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1879 - 1112 pages
...the Crown was thus laid down by the high authority to whom he had already referred (Mr. Bagehot) — "The Sovereign has, under a Constitutional Monarchy...consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." Not one of these rights suggested the power of initiation. The first two had reference to the action... | |
| Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - Democracy - 1880 - 208 pages
...triumph. Walter Bagehot, in his treatise on the British Constitution, asserted, " The sovereign has three rights: the right to be consulted, the right...right to warn, and a king of great sense and sagacity should want no others." With all these rights a king may find himself helpless in restraining a ministry,... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Reid - Great Britain - 1880 - 318 pages
...those three inalienable rights which are hers as the first and greatest of constitutional Monarchs — 'the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.' She has committed mistakes, of course. Her opinions at times may not have been the opinions of her... | |
| sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 306 pages
...those three inalienable rights which are hers as the first and greatest of constitutional Monarchs — 'the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.' She has committed mistakes, of course. Her opinions at times may not have been the opinions of her... | |
| Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1893 - 550 pages
...her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent Dff." In addition to the control over particular ministers,...constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — thejright to be consulted, the right to encourage, the And a king of great sense and sagacity would... | |
| Sir Sidney Low - Constitutional history - 1904 - 346 pages
...things, the constitutional Sovereign is understood to have three rights, which have been defined as the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. The minister can do what seems good to him and his colleagues. But it is subject to the obligation... | |
| John Manley Hall - Great Britain - 1906 - 168 pages
...the Crown still retains an immense personal and social influence for good or evil." He still has " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sagacity and sense would want no others." To understand the English government correctly it is necessary... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1909 - 490 pages
...indeed, it ever served that purpose — at least it retains much of its dignified character. If the "three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn" — are now less often effectively asserted, the crown has gained rather than lost in moral and social... | |
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