The Queen requires, first, that Lord Palmerston will distinctly state what he proposes in a given case, in order that the Queen may know as distinctly to what she has given her royal sanction; secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
This happened to Sir Robert Peel in 1834. Believing, as every one at that time did believe, that the King had arbitrarily dismissed Lord Melbourne's cabinet, he said, "I should by my acceptance of the office of First Minister become technically, if not morally, responsible for the dissolution of the preceding government, although I had not the remotest concern in it."
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
This view of psychology is attained, Dewey observes, by regarding man under two arbitrarily determined aspects.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard