... approximation. The connecting link is the cabinet. By that new word we mean a committee of the legislative body selected to be the executive body. The legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee,... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Página 4801898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1868 - 512 páginas
...Legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly.' — Ibid. p. 12. A century ago this was hardly the case ; then the Crown still possessed the choice... | |
| 1868 - 518 páginas
...Legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly.'—Ibid. p. 12. A century ago this was hardly the case; then the Crown still possessed... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 páginas
...legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly. A century ago the Crown had a real choice of ministers, though it had no longer a choice in policy.... | |
| 1888 - 966 páginas
...committees, but this is its greatest. It uses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has rnoct confidence. It does not, it is true, choose them directly...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly." It is a striking illustration of the fact of the constitution of England being "^unwritten " thai the... | |
| Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - 1890 - 938 páginas
...The legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It uses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly." It is a striking illustration of the fact of the constitution of England being "^unwritten " that the... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 páginas
...legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly. A century ago the Crown had a real choice of ministers, though it had no longer a choice in policy.... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1893 - 550 páginas
...is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence, ft does not, it is true, choose them directly; but it...is nearly omnipotent in choosing .them indirectly. A century ago the Crown had a real choice of ministers, though it had no longer a choice in policy.... | |
| 1901 - 486 páginas
...legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly. A century ago the Crown had a real choice of ministers, though it had no longer a choice in policy.... | |
| 1901 - 484 páginas
...legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...is nearly omnipotent in choosing them indirectly. A century ago the Crown had a real choice of ministers, •though it had no longer a choice in policy.... | |
| William Henry Pope Clement - 1904 - 486 páginas
...legislature has many committees, but this is its greatest. It chooses for this, its main committee, the men in whom it has most confidence. It does not,...it is true, choose them directly ; but it is nearly • Eg CUtty, " On the Prerogatives of the Crown," at p. 2. omnipotent in choosing them indirectly.... | |
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