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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in. THE TREASURY. It has been pointed out in the previous chapter that just as the Cabinet has no recognised legal existence, so there is no such official known to the language of constitutional law as a Prime Minister. Supreme as is the authority which the so-called Premier has in course of time established over his colleagues, and complete as is their subordination to him, he is in theory only one among other ministers of the Crown, and his sole official title is derived from the department over which he nominally presides. This department is nowadays the Treasury, and the office of First Lord of the Treasury has been held by the Prime Minister, either alone or in conjunction with another, ever since the year 1806. His position, however, in relation to the internal economy of this department is rather that of honorary president than of working chief; and he is usually too much occupied in considering questions of the general administrative and legislative policy of the country to have time to attend to the departmental business of the office. This business is principally transacted by the other members of the Treasury Board, an institution to whose historical origin it will here be convenient to devote a few words. The full official description of the persons who constitute this Board is that of Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer, the said persons being the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and three other officials known as Junior Lords. The Lord High Treasurer was anciently the sole head of the Treasury, and the most powerful minister in England. For more than a century and a half, however, this high office has been placed, as it is called, in commission. The Duke of Shrewsbury had be...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217962582 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217962580 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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