In the legislature the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people, by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments.... Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries - Page 35by William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1893 - 533 pagesFull view - About this book
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...: while the king is a check upon both, which prcferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by die two houfes, through the privilege they have of enquiring into, impeaching, and punifhing the conduct... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Droit - 1791 - 516 pages
...: while the king is a check upon both, which preferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houfes, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punifhing the conduct (not... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 518 pages
...impeaching, and puniihing the conduct (not indeed of the kingi, which would deftroy his conflitutional independence -, but, which is more beneficial to the public) of his evil and pernicious counfellors. Thus every branch of our civil polity fupports and is fupported, regulates and is regulated,... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...refolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houfes, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punifhing the conduct (not... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 678 pages
...punifhing the conduct (not indeed of the kirigi, which would ddtroy his conftitution il independence 5 but, which is more beneficial to the public) of his evil and pernicious councilors. Thus every branch of our civil polity fupports and is fupported, regulates and is regulated,... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 674 pages
....punifhing the con* duct (not•indeed of the king*, which would deltroy his conftitutionditindependence ; but, which' is more beneficial .to the public) of his evil and pernicious counfellors. -Thus every branch of our civil polity fupports.and is fuppqrted, regulates and ib regulated,... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 678 pages
...: while the king is a check upon both, which preferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds l>y the two houf.-s, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punifhing the... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...adcmit. luxilii fcreodi reliqnit. DeLL.3. f,. preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept...impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not indeed of the kingi, which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but, which is more beneficial to the public)... | |
| University of Oxford. Convocation - 1810 - 24 pages
...while the King " is a check upon both ; which preferves the " executive power from encroachments. And " this very executive power is again checked " and kept within due bounds by the two " houiès, through the privilege they have of " enquiring into, impeaching, and puniihing " the conduft... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...; while the king is a check upon both, which preferves the executive power from encroachments. And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houfes, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and p-unifhing thecondmft (not... | |
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