...Walter Bagehot proclaimed in 1867 to be 'the efficient secret of the English constitution', namely 'the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers' (Bagehot 2001, pp. 8-9). In spite of all the voices of opposition that were heard in the decades after...

...edn 1999), pp 276-81. (e) Parliament and the executive As long ago as 1867 Walter Bagehot highlighted 'the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers' (The English Constitution (1963 edn), p 65). The executive is headed (under the Queen as formal and ceremonial...

...and similar political materials. The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powera Ho doubt by the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution...

...subject. Bagehot declares that "the efficient secret of the English constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers." Perhaps Montesquieu meant to connote the division of powers rather than to condemn their co-ordination,...

...the state," and states that " the efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers. No doubt by the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our Constitution...