| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead - Constitutional history - 1881 - 834 pages
...The late Mr. Bagehot (Eng. Const, p. 14) defined the Cabinet as 'a combining committee — a hvpkcn which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.' But the Cabinet, he proceeds (p. 15), ' though it is a committee of the legislative assembly, is a... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...that it should be chosen by the Legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. Practically, then, the royal authority is in commission. We still have a Sovereign, but she reigns... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 914 pages
...veto — a committee with a power of appeal." The Cabinet therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." 6 Bagehot is aware of the importance of the difference between selection and election. Selection by... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1889 - 480 pages
...legislative and executive authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
| Religion - 1889 - 560 pages
...authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckh which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
| John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 436 pages
...Custom of the Constitution, Part I, p. 3o5. 3 Dicey, The Privy Council, p. 68. . he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle...of the state to the executive part of the state." l Only one of these propositions, the first, is a definition of what the Cabinet is. The other is a... | |
| William Henry Pope Clement - Canada - 1892 - 710 pages
...Control, chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the Nation. . . . A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...the one, in its functions, it belongs to the other." people constitutionally expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Commons, controls... | |
| William Henry Pope Clement - Canada - 1892 - 716 pages
...whom it trusts and knows, to rule the Nation. . . . A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphtn which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions, it belongs to the other." people constitutionally expressed through their representatives in the House of Commons, controls Imtli... | |
| Charles Ellis Stevens - Constitutional history - 1894 - 354 pages
...power of 1 May, Constitutional History of England, I. 19, 20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as " a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." — English Constitution, 14. 2 It would be a mistake to say, as many have said, that the personal... | |
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