 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
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1880
...Sulla— tribuu•u }<libit sud ode<nit, auxUia ferendi hge iiyuria faeionda potestalem De Leg. 3, 9. [encroachments. 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,... | |
 | Marshall Davis Ewell - Law - 1882 - 611 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 Blackstone - Law - 1890
...of rejecting what the other has resolved: while the king is a check upon both, which preserves tho 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 Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 533 pages
...the-Jtiuy is a .çJUeck . upon .bo.th, which preserves the executive power from encroachments. Ami 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... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 544 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... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Contracts - 1903
...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. Thus, every branch of civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1908
...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... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 18th century - 1965 - 464 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... | |
 | Gerhard Albert Ritter - Democracy - 1972 - 378 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...executive power is again checked and kept within due bonds by the two houses, through the privilege they have of enquiring into, impeaching and punishing... | |
 | Alvin Rabushka - Business & Economics - 1985 - 237 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. Thus, every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated,... | |
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