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. The English Constitution - Page 103by Walter Bagehot - 1867 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1873 - 362 pages
...equally well, the more important votes in Parliament. He is bound to take care that she knows every thing which there is to know as to the passing politics...rights -—(the right to be consulted, the right to encour-j age, the right to warn.) And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. He would... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...sums up royal powers or " rights " under a constitutional monarchy such as that of England under " the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." All these may exist without any direct influence on the course of public measures. A very able sovereign... | |
| Henry James Morgan - Canada - 1879 - 470 pages
...that bill, either in its inception or after it had been virtually destroyed. According to Bagehot, " the Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy...to warn ; and a ' king of great sense and sagacity woiild want no others." " The Queen," says the same authority, " has no veto. She must sign her own... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1879 - 1112 pages
...the Crown was thus laid down by the high authority to whom he had already referred (Mr. Bagehot) — "The Sovereign has, under a Constitutional Monarchy...consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." Not one of these rights suggested the power of initiation. The first two had reference to the action... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1879 - 1332 pages
...authority to whom he had already referred ^Mr. Bagehot) — " The Sovereign has, under a Conititutional Monarchy such as ours, three rights— the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, tho right to warn." Not one of these rights suggested tho power of initiation. The first two had reference... | |
| Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - Democracy - 1880 - 208 pages
...triumph. Walter Bagehot, in his treatise on the British Constitution, asserted, " The sovereign has three rights: the right to be consulted, the right...right to warn, and a king of great sense and sagacity should want no others." With all these rights a king may find himself helpless in restraining a ministry,... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Reid - Great Britain - 1880 - 318 pages
...those three inalienable rights which are hers as the first and greatest of constitutional Monarchs — 'the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.' She has committed mistakes, of course. Her s " 16 Politicians of To-day. opinions at times may not... | |
| sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 306 pages
...three inalienable rights which are hers as the first and greatest of constitutional Monarchs—'the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.' She has committed mistakes, of course. Her opinions at times may not have been the opinions of her... | |
| Joseph Edmund Collins - Canada - 1884 - 580 pages
...more than she can dissolve in the time of an undefeated one, and without his consent." And again : " The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy,...be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to reason ; and a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. * * * The Queen has no veto.... | |
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