The Crown and Its Advisers: Or, Queen, Ministers, Lords, & Commons |
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... executive authority . Her Majesty can neither alter , add to , nor dispense with any existing law of the realm ; but in times of emergency the Crown , acting under the advice of responsible ministers , may properly anticipate the future ...
... executive authority . Her Majesty can neither alter , add to , nor dispense with any existing law of the realm ; but in times of emergency the Crown , acting under the advice of responsible ministers , may properly anticipate the future ...
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... executive power . Now let us see what control her Majesty has over the public expenditure . No doubt you are all aware , that from a very early period in the history HER CONTROL OVER THE REVENUES . 333 of England the 32 22 THE QUEEN .
... executive power . Now let us see what control her Majesty has over the public expenditure . No doubt you are all aware , that from a very early period in the history HER CONTROL OVER THE REVENUES . 333 of England the 32 22 THE QUEEN .
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... executive power , is charged with the management of all the revenues of the country , and with all payments for the public ser- vice . The Crown , therefore , in the first instance , makes known to the Commons the pecuniary neces- с ...
... executive power , is charged with the management of all the revenues of the country , and with all payments for the public ser- vice . The Crown , therefore , in the first instance , makes known to the Commons the pecuniary neces- с ...
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... executive thing that is done in every department is made known to her , and her pleasure taken upon it . Much of the departmental business is , of course , mere routine , and the Queen has not really to keep a watch over it . But every ...
... executive thing that is done in every department is made known to her , and her pleasure taken upon it . Much of the departmental business is , of course , mere routine , and the Queen has not really to keep a watch over it . But every ...
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... executive and legislative functions of the Govern- ment - grave affairs of state and questions of domes- tic and foreign policy , the preservation of the King's peace , the management of the finances , the affairs of aliens , the ...
... executive and legislative functions of the Govern- ment - grave affairs of state and questions of domes- tic and foreign policy , the preservation of the King's peace , the management of the finances , the affairs of aliens , the ...
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Page 83 - 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 83 - ... 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 11 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 217 - 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 220 - 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 222 - ... 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 83 - 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 11 - 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 83 - 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.
Page 77 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...