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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1823. Excerpt: ... CHAP. III. like treaties, large bodies of subjects to foreign s"^^*' laws ?--He that would understand what power is executive and not legislative, and what legislative and not executive, he that would mark out and delineate the different species of constitutional powers, he that would describe either what is, or what ought to be the constitution of a country, and particularly 'of this country, let him think of these things. independence VI. In the next place we are told in a parenthesis inaccurately l t"erthreed'" ('l be'ng a matter so plain as to be taken for grantthe"ooveesm' ed) that " each of these branches af the Legislature "is independent,"--yes, " entirely independent," of the two others.--Is this then really the case? Those who consider the influence which the King and so many of the Lords have in the election of members of the House of Commons; the power which the King has, at a minute's warning, of putting an "end to the existence of any House of Commons; those who consider the influence which the King has over both Houses, by offices of dignity and profit given and taken away again at pleasure; those who consider that the King, on the other hand, depends for his daily bread on both Houses, but more particularly on the House of Commons; not to mention a variety of other circumstances that might be noticed in the same view, will judge what degree of precision there was in our Author's meaning, when he so roundly asserted the affirmative. VII. One parenthesis more: for this sentence CIJAP. III. teems with parenthesis within parenthesis. To this A"^s/^/ we are indebted for a very interesting piece of in- "JJ^iJ"i' telligence: nothing less than a full and true account station'.8 of the personal merits of the members of the House of Lords for the time being. This he is enabled...