 | Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 pages
...less than it seems to be when stated in theory, or looked at from a distance. The cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation. The particular mode in which the English ministers are selected ; the fiction that they are, in any... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1873 - 362 pages
...less than it seems to be when, stated in theory, or looked at from a distance. The cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom i&. trusts and knows, to rule the nation. The particular mode in which the English ministers are selected... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1885 - 120 pages
...CHAPTER VII. THE IRISH ADMINISTRATION. AN eminent political writer has described the English cabinet as " a board of control chosen by the Legislature out of...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." * This sentence is valuable, for it will impress on the mind by way of contrast the main characteristics... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1887 - 536 pages
...Bagehot* has given an admirable description of this mysterious institution : — The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the Legislature, out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation. The particular mode in which the English Ministers are selected, the fiction that they are in any political... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 246 pages
...complete power of control \ over all matters, both legislative and executive,/ but so long as the cabinet retains the support of the legislature, all the powers...Stuart Mill, is the most perfect form of government. Let us suppose such a system to be introduced into the United States, and let us try to discover what... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 250 pages
...complete power of control over all matters, both legislative and executive, but so long as the cabinet retains the support of the legislature, all the powers...board, of control chosen by the legislature, out of persdns whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation ; " and this, in the opinion of John Stuart Mill,... | |
 | John William Burgess - 1890 - 456 pages
...however, is not so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, "a board of control chosen by the legislature, out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation"; 4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. 2 Anson, Law and Custom... | |
 | John William Burgess - 1890 - 462 pages
...is not so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, " a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation";4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. 2 Anson, Law... | |
 | John William Burgess - 1890 - 436 pages
...so modest as Professor Dicey. He has undertaken to define the Cabinet. He calls it, first, "aboard of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation";4 and, again, 1 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Bk. I, p. 269. . Anson, Law... | |
 | Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy - 1891 - 48 pages
...constantly referred to as the most acute of English constitutional writers, the Cabinet under our system is a board of control chosen by the legislature out...persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation * Cabinet Ministers form a committee of the legislature, chosen by the majority for the time being.... | |
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The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation. 
