Excerpt from A Plea for the Introduction of Responsible Government: And the Representation of Capital Into the United States, as Safeguards Against Communism and Disunion Here, Hamilton ascribes the fact that' the Crown had long since ceased to veto bills, not to the fact that the Constitution compelled the Crown to modify its cabinet and its policy to agree with the bill, but to the art with which the Crown succeeded in controlling elections and Parliament. Whether this were true when Hamilton wrote it, or not, it certainly would not be true to-day. To - day, ' if a bill which the government opposes passes the Heuse of Commons, the cabinet must either resign or dissolve the Parliament, and call an election, in which election the people will decide whether to sustain the old cabinet or the bill. If they elect a new house favorable to the old cabinet, then the bill is dropped. If they elect a new house favorable to the bill, then the old cabi net goes out, and a new one, favorable to the bill, goes in; and hence no bill ever passes both houses, so as to reach the Queen for the royal assent, until her cabinet approve it and are ready to advise her to sign it. As Blackstone's Commentaries, written a few years earlier than The Fed eralist, nowhere utter this doctrine, that the Crown must modify its cabinet to agree with the House of Commons, though, in practice, it had for some time been the usage, it is probable that it had not then become a doctrine of the English Constitution, but was regarded as most of the features of the English Constitution in their origin were - as a privilege accorded by the favor and grace of the Crown. Certainly there is nothing in the writings of the framers of our Constitution to indicate that they regarded it as a doctrine of English constitutional law at that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.