Parliament: Its History, Constitution and PracticeH. Holt, 1911 - 256 pages |
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... executive committees , foreshad- owing the famous executive committees of the French Revolution ; but government by committees was not a success . The great rule of Cromwell was a series of failures to reconcile the authority of the ...
... executive committees , foreshad- owing the famous executive committees of the French Revolution ; but government by committees was not a success . The great rule of Cromwell was a series of failures to reconcile the authority of the ...
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... executive . Changes in our laws were proposed by independent members , and carried , not as party questions , by their combined action on both sides . Now , when an independent member brings forward a subject , it is not to propose ...
... executive . Changes in our laws were proposed by independent members , and carried , not as party questions , by their combined action on both sides . Now , when an independent member brings forward a subject , it is not to propose ...
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... executive government of which they are at the head . Let us begin with the work of making laws . The law of this country is commonly classified as falling under two heads , the common law and the statute law . The common law may for ...
... executive government of which they are at the head . Let us begin with the work of making laws . The law of this country is commonly classified as falling under two heads , the common law and the statute law . The common law may for ...
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... executive govern- ment , cannot , as such , determine whether any legislative measure should or should not be introduced , or should or should not be passed , but they have , through their control over the business arrangements of the ...
... executive govern- ment , cannot , as such , determine whether any legislative measure should or should not be introduced , or should or should not be passed , but they have , through their control over the business arrangements of the ...
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... executive government . When a private bill has been reported by a committee to the house , the report has to be considered by the house , and the bill has to be read a third time and passed , as in the case of a public bill . But here ...
... executive government . When a private bill has been reported by a committee to the house , the report has to be considered by the house , and the bill has to be read a third time and passed , as in the case of a public bill . But here ...
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Page 158 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention.
Page 159 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each 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 ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed : but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 158 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination : and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 225 - States, except in cases of impeachment ; to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 159 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of the land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Page 204 - Resolved, &c., that all aids and supplies, and aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the sole gift of the Commons ; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons ; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed or altered by the...
Page 188 - Many of the company remembered the debate, and some passages were cited, with the approbation and applause of all present. During the ardour of conversation, Johnson remained silent. As soon as the warmth of praise subsided, he opened with these words : " That speech I wrote in a garret in Exeter street." The company was struck with astonishment. After staring at each other in silent amaze, Dr. Francis asked, " how that speech could be written by him ?" " Sir," said Johnson,
Page 242 - ... choice of advisers in the Crown, were the Colonial Governor to be instructed to secure the co-operation of the Assembly in his policy, by entrusting its administration to such men as could command a majority ; and if he were given to understand that he need count on no aid from home in any difference with the Assembly, that should not directly involve the relations between the mother country and the Colony.
Page 26 - The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament...
Page 158 - My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent : if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...