...inseparable accidents until we know the necessary essence. A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. The most curious point about the cabinet is that so very little is known about it. The meetings are...

...Cabinet as 'a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legisbti« part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs tothe one, in its functions it belongs to the other.' But the Cabinet, he process (p. 15), 'though...

...out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other. Practically, then, the royal authority is in commission. We still have a Sovereign, but she reigns...

...power of appeal." The Cabinet therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." 6 Bagehot is aware of the importance of the difference between selection and election. Selection by...

...complete fusion of the legislative and executive authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins,...of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they...

...authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckh which fastens, the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State." " The Americans," he continues, " of 1787 thought they were copying the English constitution, but they...

...Part I, p. 3o5. 3 Dicey, The Privy Council, p. 68. . he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...of the state to the executive part of the state." l Only one of these propositions, the first, is a definition of what the Cabinet is. The other is a...

...Constitutional History of England, I. 19, 20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as " a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...the one, in its functions it belongs to the other." — English Constitution, 14. 2 It would be a mistake to say, as many have said, that the personal...

...the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation." Again he calls it "a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state."4 Every reader of Mr. Dicey's remarkable book on the Law of the Constitution, is acquainted...

...mainspring of our constitutional system — 'the hyphen,' to use the words of Mr. Bagehot, ' which joins the buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part of the State," is not mentioned by writers like Blackstone and De Lolme. ' The cabinet," says Lord Macaulay, 'strange...