Excerpt from The Kingdom Papers, Vol. 2
Mr. Monk"s action in resigning from the ministry because his colleagues determined to recommend to parliament a grant of some millions to the British navy, without providing for the preliminary assent of the electors, may be considered from two points of view the constitutional and the personal.
Constitutional: If by constitutional, one understands legal (a) no one can pretend that in doing anything it pleased with the public funds, parliament would be acting unlawfully. But, if by constitutional, one means according to correct practice then the question becomes debatable.
If we go back far enough, plenty of precedents can be found in British practice for the grant of large sums of money to foreign governments, not only without reference to the people, but by the ministry of the day without reference to parliament itself. With the growth, however, of the idea that it is the peoples will that is the controlling power and not that of the sovereign that ministers are the servants of the electorate and not of the King, there has arisen a doctrine of parliamentary action to which we all give more or less assent, namely the doctrine of mandate.
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