 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1848 - 82 pages
...imprudence. It never has been the course of this House ' to resist a continued and deliberately expressed public opinion. Your ' Lordships always have bowed,...hasty legislation leading ' to irreparable evils." * Of course when parties are at all equally balanced in the country, as was the case during the violent... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1848 - 76 pages
...imprudence. It never has been the course of this House ' to resist a continued and deliberately expressed public opinion. Your ' Lordships always have bowed,...hasty legislation leading ' to irreparable evils." * Of course when parties are at all equally balanced in the country, as was the case during the violent... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 366 pages
...25th, 1846. never has been the course of this House to resist a continued and deliberately-expressed public opinion. Your Lordships always have bowed,...hasty legislation leading to irreparable evils."* Looking, then, to the paramount influence which the House of Commons now influences on the government... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pages
...imprudence. It never has been the course of this House to resist a continued and deliberately-expressed public opinion. Your Lordships always have bowed,...hasty legislation leading to irreparable evils."* Looking, then, to the paramount influence which the House of Commons now influences on the Government... | |
 | Richard Masheder - Church and state - 1864 - 494 pages
...this House to resist a continued and deliberately expressed public opinion. Your Lordships have always bowed, and always will bow to the expression of such...hasty legislation, leading to irreparable evils." To put faith, therefore, in the positive obstructiveness of the Lords, to expect them, year by year,... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...deliberately expressed }'u'-> opinion. Your lordships always have bowed, and always will bow. !•> '' expression of such an opinion ; but it is yours to check hasty kgB^t* leading to irreparable evils.' (Hansard, Deb. Ixxxvi. p. 1175.) SimiWy, the late Lord Lyndlmrst,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1880 - 380 pages
...continued and deliberately-expressed public opinion. Your Lordships always have bowed, and always will tow, to the expression of such an opinion; but it is yours...hasty legislation leading to irreparable evils."* Public opinion is in truth now the great lever of political action in England, but with many valuable... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - Constitutional history - 1886 - 870 pages
...imprudence. It never has been the course of this House to resist a continued and deliberately expressed public opinion. Your lordships always have bowed,...check hasty legislation leading to irreparable evils.' (Hansard, Deb. Ixxxvi. p. 1175). Similarly, the late Lord Lyndhurst, speaking on the second reading... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - 1909 - 192 pages
...imprudence. It never has been the course of this House to resist a continued and deliberately expressed public opinion. Your Lordships always have bowed,...check hasty legislation leading to irreparable evils." Since that date the same sentiment has been repeated again and again, until it has become a commonplace... | |
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... constitutional value of this House, it is to interpose a salutary obstacle to rash and inconsiderate legislation ; it is to protect the people from the consequences of their own imprudence. It never has been the course of this House to resist a continued... 