Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 136, 24 February 1891 — The Queen and Her Cabinet [ARTICLE]

The Queen and Her Cabinet

(Contin«ed,) Th« framers of the Ainērican consiitution with th« example of Lojrd North" before 'them, wiseiy*detertmned that there should ba no c«nstituti«nal status f»r a eabinent tvrant, and with this modifScation, the l T nited Statee caai?titution, Btands inall essentials to-day, in the distinctive powers of President. Senate and House of R«presentatives; what the- unwritten ceßStituti«n of England was in King, 'Lords and Commons, one hundred and twenty years ago. ('ei-iaia it is that among the amenainents passed, the original preroggratives of the President remain, and every candid writer will admit that aU the rights of the Pre?ident of the United Btates to-day. were oopied from the rightg of monarchy as exercised īn England when the V. S. c®nstitution was framed, and r.m«ag the President's rights will be found that said to be now elaimed by Queen Liliu#kalani. A fact not generally recog»ized by non-Englishi«en, who write on Snglish politics is, that the liberal concessions gained by the ]>eople the days ©f King John, had to lie wrestod b} r f<irce from the Lords, but were generally aided bv ■ the King, and ifa vote of the cōnr,mons people of England was tafcen to*day to test the question of whieh should be abolished, inonarcliy or the House of Lords;" the. latter would receive an almost unanimous vote. A:nong tho dangers to the. ■Ētability'of.monarchy all the worid ovlt is its own tendencv to capri-

< iousriess in api>oniting fa\M>r:te.s of tno Court rathor than of the peopl<\ Victoria in her early dnys \vas waited U|X)n anil surrounded bv a roterie of feminine polit.ician?. (as at'prc6ont here) who took aik vantage of her vouth aml inexperifMK*e to thwart even a vote of the H*ouse of Commens. The inoderation of the assembled wisdom ©f the nation prevented the eonsef|uences to the yo«ng Queen, but it raised a diseussion in l>oth Houscs, whieh coatributed in 110 {•mall degree to the Hnal retirement of Lord Mellioume from puMie iitv'. The ieminine head that wears a <-rown is always raore in danger froui being surrounde(3 by an oxot>s of i»vt<icoats than proroj?atives. I). M. ('