 | John Cannon - 1984 - 208 sider
...awarding the nobility a central role in the constitution: the House of Lords formed a body 'to support the rights of both the crown and the people by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both'.4 The Russian prince, MM Shcherbatov, urging the claims of the... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 sider
...views. A body of nobility is alfo more peculiarly necefiary in our mixed and compounded conftitution, in order to fupport the rights of both the crown and...gradual fcale of dignity, which proceeds from the pcafant to the prince; rifing like a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminifhing to a point as... | |
 | Paul O. Carrese - 2010 - 350 sider
...because in a "mixed and compounded constitution" it is necessary to have a third body that supports "the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both" (1.2, *158). Without that middle branch, "stability" would be... | |
 | Kyle Scott - 2007 - 194 sider
...force for both authors. Where Blackstone says the judiciary is to serve as a third branch that supports "the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both," and without that third branch, stability would be threatened... | |
 | 1840 - 548 sider
...nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both. It creates and preserves that gradual scale of dignity, which... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1850 - 250 sider
...nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both. It creates and preserves that gradual scale of dignity, which... | |
 | 300 sider
...factor in the constitution : 'a body of nobility', in Blackstone's celebrated analysis, 'to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both'.1 In practice, it was an adjunct of the crown, and the Scottish... | |
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A body of nobility is also more peculiarly necessary in our mixed and compounded constitution, in order to support the rights of both the crown and the people, by forming a barrier to withstand the encroachments of both. 
