 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.  The English Constitution - Page 73by Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jesse Macy - Constitutional history - 1896 - 576 pages
...the chief Ministerial officers who compose it. " To state the matter shortly," says Mr. Bagehot, " the Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy...having no others would enable him to use these with a singular effect. He would say to his minister : ' The responsibility of these measures is upon you.... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Great Britain - 1903 - 418 pages
...influence for good or evil." Notwithstanding the fact that his powers are closely circumscribed, he has " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage,...of great sense and sagacity would want no others." It is easy even for the casual observer to see that even now in the United Kingdom there is still that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others."3 But after the advice and warning have been given the final decision must remain with the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1910 - 822 pages
...whether she can give her assent to that advice or not." It has been pointed out by Mr. Bagehot that the Sovereign has, under a Constitutional monarchy...consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. Frequent audiences are given to Ministers. Not only the Prime Minister himself, but the political heads... | |
 | Sidney Low - 1910 - 338 pages
...things, the constitutional Sovereign is understood to have three rights, which have been denned 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... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Administrative law - 1910 - 484 pages
...dealing with any Minister, however powerful. Bagehot enumerates three rights possessed by the King: 'the right to be consulted. the right to encourage, the right to warn.' ' A King of great sense and sagacity would want', he adds, 'no other.' The Letters of Queen Victoria... | |
 | 1910 - 804 pages
...Mr. Bagehot that 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. Frequent audiences are given to Ministers. Not only the Prime Minister himself, but the political heads... | |
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