 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...We must not bewilder ourselves with the inseparable accidents until we know the necessary essence. A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. The most curious point about the cabinet is that so very little is known about it. The meetings... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...characteristic is that it should be chosen by the Legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee...belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. Practically, then, the royal authority is in commission. We still have a Sovereign, but she... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 914 pages
...veto — a committee with a power of appeal." The Cabinet therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." 6 Bagehot is aware of the importance of the difference between selection and election. Selection... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1889 - 480 pages
...legislative and executive authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
 | Religion - 1889 - 560 pages
...authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckh which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they... | |
 | John William Burgess - Comparative law - 1890 - 462 pages
...Bagehot, The English Constitution, p. 81. 2io The Constitution of the Executive. he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle...of the state to the executive part of the state." 1 Only one of these propositions, the first, is a definition of what the Cabinet is. The other is a... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 608 pages
...Cabinet. We must not bewilder ourselves with the separable accidents until we know the necessary essence. A Cabinet is a combining committee, — a hyphen which...belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. The most curious point about the Cabinet is, that so very little is known about it. The meetings... | |
 | Charles Ellis Stevens - Political Science - 1894 - 334 pages
...power of 1 May, Constitutional History of England, I. 19, 20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." — English Constitution, 14. 2 It would be a mistake to say, as many have said, that the personal... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1895 - 808 pages
...by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." Again he calls it "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the...legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state."4 Every reader of Mr. Dicey's remarkable book on the Law of the Constitution, is acquainted... | |
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A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. 
