Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics. It had not been expected that the Labor Ministry would fall on the legal issues arising from the suspended prosecution of James Ross Campbell. Political observers felt that their fate was to be sealed at the conclusion of the debate on the Anglo-Russian Treaty, scheduled for November. After the vote, they swore by all their gods that the Government had virtually fallen on the Russian issue and what the trivial issue of the dropped edition charge had been seized upon because it was favorable to Liberal and Conservative election interests...
...Legally the King can refuse to accept Cabinet resignations. He can instead command the Premier to form a new Cabinet. He can disregard the advice of a retiring Premier and can charge a man of his own choice to form a new Cabinet. Likewise he can refuse to dissolve Parliament. In the legal sense, the conception of Blackstone, famed 18th Century jurist, is still true; the king is the fountain of honor, of office and of privilege...
Alongside the laws which govern the King's powers (chiefly those of the settlement of 1689-Declaration of Rights) are extra-legal rules cemented by precedence and the disuse of the King's prerogative, or what Maitland called "constitutional morality." This means that the King, in order to prevent a clash of laws or arouse public opinion against him, is compelled to do what his predecessors have done. He therefore usually accepts the advice of his ministers, dissolves Parliament when requested, gives his assent to laws.* But it remains an incontrovertible fact that he is legally within...
...Britain, the duties of the Attorney General's office are not unlike those of the corresponding office in the U. S. The Attorney General represents the Crown (meaning Government, in its widest sense) in all legal questions, advises the government departments when called upon. In addition, he has wide control in matters relating to criminal prosecutions...
...Premiership is not an office and the holder has no legal power over his fellow members Until 1905 the position was unrecognized but in December of that year King Edward VII signed a royal warrant granting Premiers of Britain precedence next after the Archbishop of York, or twelfth in the table of precedency. * The last time a sovereign of Britain refused assent to a bill was in 1707. when Queen Anne withheld assent to the Scotch Militia Bill...