 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
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 854 pages
...political rights to which a constitutional monarch, in a system like the British, is entitled. He has "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." And, as the same writer very truly remarks, such rights, in the hands of a monarch of sense and sagacity,... | |
 | David Duncan Wallace - Great Britain - 1917 - 426 pages
...by Bagehot as follows: he has "three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to advise, and the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others." Attachment of the English to the Limited Monarchy. The English people are strongly attached to their... | |
 | India - Constitutional history - 1918 - 204 pages
...emphatic way, the Crown has "three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others." We should here refer to two immemorial customs of the constitution. The first is that the ministers... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 878 pages
...political rights to which a constitutional monarch, in a system like the British, is entitled. He has "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." And, as the same writer very truly remarks, such rights, in the hands of a monarch of sense and sagacity,... | |
 | George Burton Adams - Constitutional history - 1921 - 536 pages
...him, which are not many. The three rights which, fifty years ago, Bagehot attributed to the crown, " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn," amount to no more than this, though they seem to allow some room to influence actual government. Much... | |
 | Edward McChesney Sait, David Prescott Barrows, David P. Barrows - Great Britain - 1925 - 348 pages
...Bagehot, while leaving the responsibility of shaping policy to his Prime Minister, has at any rate three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. If the Minister is determined to follow a certain line, the King, in the ordjnary course, will not... | |
 | Kate Rosenberg - Constitutional history - 1926 - 104 pages
...powers of great significance. The sovereign has certain recognised rights that are rarely disregarded : the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. Victoria exercised these rights on numerous occasions. Palmerston, who tried to control affairs with... | |
 | Commonwealth countries - 1927 - 898 pages
...the Cabinet. The Governor-General still possesses the rights defined in Bagehot's famous phrase, " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn " ; occasionally he may still have to determine the very important question of who shall be Prime Minister,... | |
 | American Historical Association. Historical Service Board - 1946 - 1560 pages
...must choose him. His other constitutional acts are all done on the advice of his ministers. He has "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn," and if he has accumulated knowledge, experience, and understanding by spending many years on the job he... | |
 | 1910 - 1166 pages
...shrewd speculation as to the political functions of the Monarch. ' The Sovereign has,' he wrote, ' under a constitutional Monarchy such as ours, three...consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.' The Letters of Queen Victoria illustrate abundantly her insistence on these rights. It was the violation... | |
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