The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860: With a New Supplementary Chapter, 1861-1871, by Sir Thomas Erskine May, Volume 1Armstrong, 1895 - Constitutional history |
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... GEORGE III . Influence of the Crown since the Revolution Its sources · • Restrictions on the personal influence of the sovereign Ministerial power and responsibility . Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III . His ...
... GEORGE III . Influence of the Crown since the Revolution Its sources · • Restrictions on the personal influence of the sovereign Ministerial power and responsibility . Power of ministers regarded with jealousy by George III . His ...
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... GEORGE IV . , WILLIAM IV . , AND HER MAJESTY QUEEN VIC- TORIA . Influence of the Court over the prince regent His estrangement from the Whigs · · 105 106 • • Position of parties a proof of the paramount influence of the Crown 108 ...
... GEORGE IV . , WILLIAM IV . , AND HER MAJESTY QUEEN VIC- TORIA . Influence of the Court over the prince regent His estrangement from the Whigs · · 105 106 • • Position of parties a proof of the paramount influence of the Crown 108 ...
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... George III.'s first regency scheme , 1765 Doubts concerning the term " royal family · " • Attempted exclusion of Princess of Wales from the regency Meeting of Parliament during the king's second illness , 1788-9 The rights of a regent ...
... George III.'s first regency scheme , 1765 Doubts concerning the term " royal family · " • Attempted exclusion of Princess of Wales from the regency Meeting of Parliament during the king's second illness , 1788-9 The rights of a regent ...
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... George III . . Settlement of the Civil List on the accession of George III . Charges and debts upon the Civil List Schemes for economic reform . The Civil List Act , 1782 . · Civil Lists since the regency Duchies of Lancaster and ...
... George III . . Settlement of the Civil List on the accession of George III . Charges and debts upon the Civil List Schemes for economic reform . The Civil List Act , 1782 . · Civil Lists since the regency Duchies of Lancaster and ...
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... George III . 296 Judicial officers disqualified . 298 Pecuniary bribes to members 299 During the reign of George III . 301 Members bribed by shares in loans and lotteries By lucrative contracts . 304 308 · Various sources of corruption ...
... George III . 296 Judicial officers disqualified . 298 Pecuniary bribes to members 299 During the reign of George III . 301 Members bribed by shares in loans and lotteries By lucrative contracts . 304 308 · Various sources of corruption ...
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Page 21 - 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 444 - 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 392 - 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 214 - ... 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.
Page 418 - 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 180 - ... by his command, signified by word of mouth, the royal signature by means of a stamp. In order to prevent the possibility of any abuse of this power, it was provided that the stamp should not be affixed to any instrument, unless a memorandum describing its object had been indorsed upon it, signed by the Lord Chancellor, the President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Secretaries of State, or any three of them. The seal was directed to be kept in the custody...
Page 67 - 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 misdemeanour, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 453 - ... 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 449 - that to guard for the future, against an undue exercise of that power by the Lords, and to secure to the Commons their rightful control over taxation and supply, this House has in its own hands, the power so to impose and remit taxes, and to frame bills of supply, that the right of the Commons as to the matter, manner, measure, and time, may be maintained inviolate.
Page 295 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.