...case.s 1 Bagehot, Eng. Con^tp 13. 2 The late Mr. Bagchot (Eng. Const. p. 14) defined .the 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,...

...that it should be chosen by the Legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the Legislature A Cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...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...

...veto — a committee with a power of appeal." The Cabinet therefore is, to use Bagehot's expressions, "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...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...

...legislative and executive authorities." " The Cabinet," he further observes, " is a combining committee,—a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative...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...

...Custom of the Constitution, Part I, p. 305. * Dicey, The Privy CounciI, p. 68. he designates it, "as a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle...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...

...power of 1 May, Constitutional History of England, I. 19, 20. Mr. Bagehot describes the Cabinet as "a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a...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...

...by 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...

...Cabinet — forming what Mr. Bagehot calls the connecting link between the executive and the legislature. A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which...belongs to the one ; in its functions it belongs to the other.1 We have next to consider the method and effects of the working of this institution in its actual...