 | English literature - 1807 - 522 pages
...where the House of Commons had been zealous and nearly unanimous. It is needless to say, that the Rouse of Lords would oppose a still feebler barrier to such a measure of popular legislation. In order to exercise their constitutional functions with safety, therefore, it became necessary for... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1824 - 574 pages
...consequences of such a resistance, where the House of Commons had been zealous and nearly unanimous. It is needless to say, that the House of Lords would...barrier to such a measure of popular legislation. In order to exercise their constitutional functions with safety, therefore, it became necessary for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...consequences of such a resistance, where the House of Commons had been zealous and nearly unanimous. It is needless to say, that the House of Lords would...barrier to such a measure of popular legislation. In order to exercise their constitutional functions with safety, therefore, it became necessary for... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 632 pages
...consequences of such a resistance, where the House of Commons had been zealous and nearly unanimous. It is needless to say, that the House of Lords would...barrier to such a measure of popular legislation. In order to exercise their constitutional functions with safety, therefore, it became necessary for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...consequences of sucli a resistance, where the House of Commons had been zealous and nearly unanimous. It is needless to say, that the House of Lords would...barrier to such a measure of popular legislation. In order to exercise their constitutional functions with safety, therefore, it became necessary for... | |
 | Parliament proc, Will. iv - 1832 - 890 pages
...reviewer says, — No thinking man can contemplate, without dismay, the probable consequences of such a resistance ; it is needless to say that the House...would oppose a still feebler barrier to such a measure ol popular legislation. This, according to the Edinburgh Review, must be the judgment of every thinking... | |
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... interpose the royal negative to any measure which has passed through the Houses of Parliament, even by narrow majorities ; and there is no thinking man, who can contemplate, without dismay, the probable consequences of such a resistance, where the... 