Download or read book The School for Statesmen, Or, the Public Man's Manual; Being a Complete Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...The Aula Regia was composed of the barons of parliament, who delegated to the justiciars, or justices, the cases brought before their court. The appeal from these decisions remaining with the barons. Hence, on the dissolution of the 2' Aula Regia, as an original court, it still retained its fea' 1 applied to the Court of Common Pleas for a haheas corpus; but being found in the wrong, the privileges of the house were maintained, and they were remanded to the Tower till the house liberated them. These cases of imprisonment for breach of privilege, together with that of Sir F. Burdett for the same cause, in 1810, March 6 to 9, are the most interesting in modern times. Breach of privilege is the principle of the proceedings. This is often asserted in calling printers to the bar of the House, for mis representing debates. Every offence, in fact, whether committed by a member or a stranger, comes under the denomination of breach of privilege.--(See Hatsell.) Blackstone, vol. iii. chap. iv. p. 37. 57. H 146 CHARLES THE rrrcsr. ture of a court of appeal, and such is the present House of Lords;--not a court for original causes, but merely for appeals; and its decision is final. Such is the main characteristic difference between_ the Upper House of Parliament and the Lower. The characteristic which distinguishes the last, is one which places the real power of government in its i hands, and illustrates the law of the constitution. It consists in the privilege of originating all supplies, of exerting the tremendous power of stopping them.-I This last step can only be resorted to on a great state emergency, and when the power of the prerogative encroaches dangerously on the liberties of the people. An instance...