 In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments....  Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 155de Sir William Blackstone - 1791Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Vernon - 1996 - 284 pages
...the Nobility, and the Nobility a check upon the People ... while the King is a check upon both ... And this very executive power is again checked and kept within due bounds by the two Houses.' 70 Far from being an enhancement of liberty, the 'unconstitutional ascendancy ... aimed at... | |
 | Jeffrey L. McNairn - 2000 - 492 pages
...the sovereign is a check upon both, which preserve the executive power from encroachments. And this executive power is again checked, and kept within due bounds by the two houses ... Thus every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regu3... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 pages
...privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of enquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 pages
...nobility a check upon the people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has refolved : while the king is a check upon both, which preferves...checked, and kept within due bounds by the two houfes, p SxHa — tribvnh flibis fua Ugt ityuriat feciftJae ptteftmttm adtmtt, auxilii ftrendt reli* £mi... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 pages
...and the nobility a check upon the people; . . . while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...again checked, and kept within due bounds by the two houses. . . . Like three distinct powers in mechanics, they jointly impel the machine of government... | |
 | Lee Ward - 2004 - 478 pages
...nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people,... while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...executive power is again checked and kept within due bonds by the two houses Thus every branch of our polity supports and is supported, regulates and is... | |
 | Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812 - 1812 - 788 pages
..." in, indeed, consists the " of the English " the parts of it " a check upon both, which preserves the " executive power from encroachments. " And this..." checked and kept within due bounds by " the two Houses, through the privilege " they have of impeaching and punishing " evil counsellors. Thus every... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1995 - 334 pages
...privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. And this very...again checked and kept within due bounds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of inquiring into, impeaching, and punishing the conduct (not... | |
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