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“But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.”
“A constitutional sovereign must in the common course of government be a man of but common ability. I am afraid, looking to the early acquired feebleness of hereditary dynasties, that we must expect...”
“The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want...”
“A pompous man easily sweeps away the suggestions of those beneath him.”
“To wish to be a despot ... marks in our day an uncultivated mind.”
“[T]he two most singular prerogatives of an English king [are] the power of creating new peers and the power of dissolving the Commons.”
“[W]hatever is unnecessary in government is pernicious.”
“An Act of Parliament is at least as complex as a marriage settlement; and it is made much as a settlement would be if it were left to the vote and settled by the major part of persons concerned, in...”
“The best test of a machine is the work it turns out. Let any one who knows what legal documents ought to be, read first a will he has just been making and then an Act of Parliament; he will certain...”
“[A]dministration is an art as painting is an art; and ... no book can teach the practice of either.”
