 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1891 - 746 pages
...privileges of Parliament were set don-n and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...and independence of the two Houses are therefore in great measure preserved by keeping their privileges indefinite." The dicta of judges on this subject... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1891 - 738 pages
...privileges of Parliament were set down and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...Parliament. The dignity and independence of the two Houses arc therefore in great measure preserred by keeping their privileges indefinite." The dicta of judges... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for tke executive power to devise some new case, not within the line of privilege, and under pretense thereof to harass any refractory member and violate the freedom of parliament. The dignity... | |
 | Frank J. Goodnow - Constitutional history - 1916 - 414 pages
...privileges of Parliament were set down and ascertained and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...new case not within the line of privilege and under pretense thereof to harass any refractory member and violate the freedom of Parliament. The dignity... | |
 | Frank J. Goodnow - Constitutional history - 1916 - 426 pages
...privileges of Parliament were set down and ascertained and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive power to derive some new case not within the line of privilege, and under pretense thereof to harass any refractory... | |
 | Robert Luce - Legislative bodies - 1924 - 718 pages
...of Parliament were once to be set down and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...and independence of the two Houses are therefore in great measure preserved by keeping their privilege indefinite." l In a sense it may still be true that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Congressional Operations - 1973 - 248 pages
...such definitions could be counterproductive, for if 141 no privilege [were] to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...refractory member and violate the freedom of parliament. Madison himself was later to agree, advocating a functional approach to the privilege. 142 2. Post-Convention... | |
 | Geoffrey Wilson - Law - 1976 - 842 pages
...privileges of parliament were set down and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...refractory member and violate the freedom of parliament '. . . 24. The House of Commons has disciplinary powers over its members, and a member who abuses his... | |
 | William Blackstone - Droit - 2002 - 500 pages
...power to devife fbme new cafe, not within the line of privilege, and under pretence thereof to harafs any refractory member and violate the freedom of parliament. The dignity and independence of the two houfes are therefore in great meaiure preferved by keeping their privileges indefinite. Some however... | |
 | Joshua A. Chafetz - Political Science - 2007 - 319 pages
...of parliament were once to be set down and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive...and independence of the two houses are therefore in great measure preserved by keeping their privileges indefinite.10 As a thinker — and, for a while,... | |
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If therefore all the privileges of parliament were once to be set down and ascertained, and no privilege to be allowed but what was so defined and determined, it were easy for the executive power to devise some new case, not within the line of privilege,... 
