The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - Constitutional history |
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... responsibility Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III . His determination to exalt the kingly office . His secret counsellors . His policy and its dangers He enforces it against his ministers Lord Bute as premier ...
... responsibility Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III . His determination to exalt the kingly office . His secret counsellors . His policy and its dangers He enforces it against his ministers Lord Bute as premier ...
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... RESPONSIBILITY : — ACCESSION OF GEORGE III . : — HIS RE- SOLUTION TO EXERCISE A LARGER SHARE OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN ... responsible to Parliament ; and the House of Commons was no longer held in awe by royal prerogative . Yet so great ...
... RESPONSIBILITY : — ACCESSION OF GEORGE III . : — HIS RE- SOLUTION TO EXERCISE A LARGER SHARE OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN ... responsible to Parliament ; and the House of Commons was no longer held in awe by royal prerogative . Yet so great ...
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... responsibility . responsi- The government of the state was conducted , Ministerial throughout all its departments , by ministers responsible bility . to Parliament for every act of their administration , -without whose advice no act ...
... responsibility . responsi- The government of the state was conducted , Ministerial throughout all its departments , by ministers responsible bility . to Parliament for every act of their administration , -without whose advice no act ...
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... responsible , " the king could do no wrong . " The Stuarts had strained prerogative so far , that it had twice snapped asunder in their hands . They had exercised it personally , and were held personally responsible for its exercise ...
... responsible , " the king could do no wrong . " The Stuarts had strained prerogative so far , that it had twice snapped asunder in their hands . They had exercised it personally , and were held personally responsible for its exercise ...
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... responsible ministers , up- held by party connexions and parliamentary interest . Accordingly , the first object of ... responsibility Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III • His determination to exalt the kingly office.
... responsible ministers , up- held by party connexions and parliamentary interest . Accordingly , the first object of ... responsibility Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III • His determination to exalt the kingly office.
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Page 8 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 445 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...
Page 444 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 473 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 416 - Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it...
Page 59 - That it is now necessary to declare that to report any opinion or pretended opinion of His Majesty upon any Bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the Members, is a high crime and misdemeanor, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 493 - LORD, from the evil man ; and preserve me from the wicked man ; 2 Who imagine mischief in their hearts, and stir up strife all the day long. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips.
Page 444 - But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 483 - ... whatever the acuteness of the bar, the dignity of the senate, or the morality of the pulpit, could furnish, had not been equal to what that House had that day heard in Westminster Hall.
Page 218 - ... such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign, and the gratitude of their country.