 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1873 - 362 pages
...cabinet ; the position of a few men insures their being invited. Between the compulsory list whom he must take, and the impossible list whom he cannot...control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom i&. trusts and knows, to rule the nation. The particular mode in which the English ministers are selected... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Ireland - 1885 - 120 pages
...CHAPTER VII. THE IRISH ADMINISTRATION. AN eminent political writer has described the English cabinet as " a board of control chosen by the Legislature out of...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." * This sentence is valuable, for it will impress on the mind by way of contrast the main characteristics... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 966 pages
...of course, a considerable power, though it is exercised under close and imperative restrictions, and it is far less than it seems to be when stated in...board of control chosen by the legislature, out of person» vrhom it trusta and knows, to rule the nation. " There is no fixed number of members for the... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - Political science - 1889 - 246 pages
...the powers of government are virtually entrusted to its care. In the words of Bagehot, the cabinet " is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out...persons •whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation ; " and this, in the opinion of John Stuart Mill, is the most perfect form of government. Let us suppose... | |
 | John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 456 pages
...however, is not so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, "a board of control chosen by the legislature, out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation"; 4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. 2 Anson, Law and Custom... | |
 | John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 444 pages
...is not so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, " a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation";4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. a Anson, Law... | |
 | John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 436 pages
...so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, "aboard of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation";4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. . Anson, Law... | |
 | Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy - Canada - 1891 - 48 pages
...constantly referred to as the most acute of English constitutional writers, the Cabinet under our system is a board of control chosen by the legislature out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation * Cabinet Ministers form a committee of the legislature, chosen by the majority for the time being.... | |
 | William Henry Pope Clement - Canada - 1892 - 710 pages
...does not, it is true, choose them directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly The Cabinet, in a word, is a Board of Control, chosen...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the Nation. . . . A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1895 - 808 pages
...But the cabinet is made up entirely out of the personnel of the two houses, being, in Bagehot's view, "a board of control chosen by the legislature, out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." Again he calls it "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state... | |
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The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation. 
