Dicey : /ntroduction, p. 263 et

3. Dicey : L. c. « This is the significance of the assertion that in this country the law of the constitution is a part of the ordinary law of the land ».

k. Dicey : L. c. : «The fact that a secretary of state cannot at his discretion and for reason of state arrest any man, except of course, where special powers are conferred upon him by statute, as by an alien act or by an extradition act, is simply a result of the principle that a secretary of state is governed in his official as in his private conduct by the ordinary law of the realm ».

5. Dicey : L. c. p. 263 : « In England the rights of a citizen has against each other are the same as the rights of citizens againts any servant of the Crown. » C’est ainsi qu’on a vu lord Salisbury, étant premier ministre, poursuivi devant les tribunaux judiciaires par un membre du Parlement qui se prétendait diffamé dans un discours officiel du ministre. Cf. BaAnnisrerR ; De la responsabilité des fonctionnaires publics en Angleterre (Revue Fœlix 11, 1835,