 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...addition to the control over particular ministers, and especially over the foreign minister, the Queen has a certain control over the Cabinet. The first minister,...sense and sagacity would want no others. He would find that his having no others would enable him to use these with singular effect. He would say to his minister... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1873 - 362 pages
...constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -—(the right to be consulted, the right to encour-j age, the right to warn.) And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. He would find that his having no others would enable him to use these with singular effect. He would say to his minister... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Leggo - Canada - 1878 - 946 pages
...England. This is laid down by all the writers. I shall quote again from Mr. Bagehot, page 143 : — ' To state the matter shortly, the Sovereign has, under...sense and sagacity would want no others. He would find that his having no others would enable him to use these with singular effect. He would say to his Minister... | |
 | Henry James Morgan - Canada - 1879 - 470 pages
...that bill, either in its inception or after it had been virtually destroyed. According to Bagehot, " the Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy...of great sense and sagacity would want no others." " The Queen," says the same authority, " has no veto. She must sign 94 POLITICAL HISTORY — 1878.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. He would... 
