The abiding feature of constitutional interest in the budget of 1861 was this inclusion of the various financial proposals in a single bill, so that the Lords must either accept the whole of them, or try the impossible performance of rejecting the whole of them.
Morley discusses the strategic importance of including all financial proposals in a single bill to limit the House of Lords' power.
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Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
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