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It is simply an assertion, refuted by
experience, that the king cannot make use of the law
here treated of.
During the Crimean war, according to a
treaty, we should have been entangled in the
war, had not the Peace of Paris intervened. So
also during the last Dano-German war, when
interference on our part, as the result of a treaty,
would have taken place, had not the death of
King Frederic VII. occurred.
The same thing would have happened during
the last Franco-German war, if the battle of
Wörth had not thrown out the reckoning,
according to a treaty which entailed our
interference. Into all these treaties the king could
enter without giving the whole Cabinet the
opportunity of expressing its opinion.
The danger of such a power begins to be
increasingly felt, especially in England. In
1886, Henry Richard raised in the House
of Commons the question of abolishing the
right of the sovereign to declare war without
the consent of Parliament. The proposition
was certainly rejected, but with the large
minority of 109 against 115 votes. That the
proposition could gather round it such a minority
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