 The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.  The English Constitution - Page 10by Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Louis Eugène Marie von Fisenne - 1899 - 120 pages
...WALTER BAGEHOT kenschetst dit juist, waar hij in zijn »English Constitution" zegt : »The efficiënt secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete i'usion, of the executive and legislative powers". Een vertegenwoordigend stelsel hebben Pruisen en... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...Mr. Bagehot remarks: 'The efficient secret of the Engliah constitution may be described as the 119 close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1902 - 684 pages
...of the private member. 'The efficient secret of the English Constitution,' according to Bagehot, ' may be described as the close union, the nearly complete...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.' The fusion has become more complete since Bagehot wrote (in 1 865-6). It is, as he pointed out, the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1902 - 682 pages
...of the private member. 'The efficient secret of the English Constitution,' according to Bagehot, ' may be described as the close union, the nearly complete...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.' The fusion has become more complete since Bagehot wrote (in 1865-6). It is, as he pointed out, the... | |
 | 1905 - 212 pages
...in 16 10 to the commencement of the Civil War. ANNUAL EXAMINATIONI 1 . Explain the statement that " The efficient secret of the English Constitution may...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers." I 11. For what constitutional facts is the reign of Henry II. noteworthy ? 13. Enumerate the principal... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 798 pages
...constitution in its most recent aspect "The efficient secret of the English constitution," he says, " may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodnea of our constitution... | |
 | 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
...As for the efficient part of the constitution, it is as true now as it was when Bagehot wrote, that "the efficient secret of the English Constitution...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers." Therewith the present-day student of English institutions must part company with Bagehot. The changes... | |
 | Henry Shaw Perris - Great Britain - 1913 - 348 pages
...their acts behind his commands. " The efficient secret of the English Constitution," says Bagehot, " may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. The connecting link is the Cabinet." There were considerable discretionary powers (such as the power... | |
 | Correa Moylan Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 402 pages
...there." 1 How Adams would have stood aghast, had he lived long enough to read Bagehot's declarations that "the efficient secret of the English Constitution...fusion, of the executive and legislative powers"; that "it is a remarkable peculiarity, a capital excellence of the British Constitution, that it contains... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1917 - 544 pages
...the executive government is vested in the sovereign. On this subject the late Mr. Bagehot remarks : ' The efficient secret of the English constitution may...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution... | |
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