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EXECUTIVE POWER

Volume 7 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

The supreme executive power of these kingdoms is vested by our laws in a single person, the king or queen for the time being. See the article KING.

The executive power, in this state, hath a right to a negative in parliament, i.e., to refuse assent to any acts offered; otherwise the other two branches of legislative power would, or might, become despotic.