 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 155by Sir William Blackstone - 1791Full view - About this book
 | John Thomas Crossley - 1845
...mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved ; while the king is a check upon both. The executive power is 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... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 387 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... | |
 | William BROWN (A.M., of Tobermore.) - 1856 - 185 pages
...resolved ; while the queen is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachment. And this very executive power is 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... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858
...of rejecting what the other has resolved ; while the sovereign is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachments : and this...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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864
...mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved ; while the king is a check upon both. The executive power is 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 612 pages
...of rejecting what the other has resolved : while the sovereign 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,... | |
 | Paul I. Tickle - Canada - 1865 - 16 pages
...privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved ; while the King is a cheek 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... | |
 | George Alfred Dean - Great Britain - 1871 - 251 pages
...resolved ; while the king is a check upon both, which preserves the executive power from encroachment. And this very executive power is 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... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1875
...resolved ; while the king is a check upon both ; which preserves the executive power from encroachment. And this very executive power is 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... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875
...the sovereign is a check upon both, and may preserve the executive power from encroachments. But this executive power is 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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