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... liament as she judges improper . Since the system of Parliamentary government , consequent upon the Revolution of 1688 , has be- come fully developed , the public authority of the Crown in England is only exercised in acts of repre ...
... liament as she judges improper . Since the system of Parliamentary government , consequent upon the Revolution of 1688 , has be- come fully developed , the public authority of the Crown in England is only exercised in acts of repre ...
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... liament and of the people . Lord Palmerston said , " It is a fundamental error to suppose that the power of the Crown to reject laws has ceased to exist . . . . That That power survives as before , but it is exercised in a different ...
... liament and of the people . Lord Palmerston said , " It is a fundamental error to suppose that the power of the Crown to reject laws has ceased to exist . . . . That That power survives as before , but it is exercised in a different ...
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... liament should immediately convene and sit at Westminster , as if the said Parliament had never been dissolved . " By a statute in the reign of George III . , a Parliament so revived would only continue in existence for six months , if ...
... liament should immediately convene and sit at Westminster , as if the said Parliament had never been dissolved . " By a statute in the reign of George III . , a Parliament so revived would only continue in existence for six months , if ...
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... liament is designed for counsel , not for rule - for control , and not for administration . Mr Canning defined the House of Commons to be a council of control as well as a council of advice ; and declared that in cases of adequate ...
... liament is designed for counsel , not for rule - for control , and not for administration . Mr Canning defined the House of Commons to be a council of control as well as a council of advice ; and declared that in cases of adequate ...
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... liament , it is unwise as a general principle to inter- fere with it in matters of administration . Should the Crown itself attempt to encroach upon the functions of Parliament , it is the duty of that august body to interpose , and to ...
... liament , it is unwise as a general principle to inter- fere with it in matters of administration . Should the Crown itself attempt to encroach upon the functions of Parliament , it is the duty of that august body to interpose , and to ...
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Page 79 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 79 - ... raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Page 191 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Page 213 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 216 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Page 218 - ... of despotism, or the licentiousness of unbridled freedom — reconciling power with liberty : not adopting hasty or ill-advised experiments, or pursuing any airy and unsubstantial theories ; but not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the service of his country any generous and liberal principles, whose excess, indeed, may be dangerous, but whose foundation is in truth.
Page 167 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the Lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break...
Page 79 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid...
Page 7 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 79 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.