Such Parliaments require the imminent check of possible dissolution; but that check is (as has been shown) better in the Premier than in the sovereign; and by the late practice of our constitution, its use is yearly ebbing from the sovereign, and yearly centring in the Premier.
He argues that the check of possible dissolution is more effective in the hands of the Premier than the sovereign.
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I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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