The English ConstitutionCosimo, Inc., 2007 M04 1 - 368 páginas Chronicling the past is much easier than chronicling the present, which was exactly Walter Bagehot's project when writing The English Constitution, first published in 1873. His ambitious undertaking was to describe the British government as it actually worked during 1865 and 1866. Government as it functions is very different from the government as it is spelled out on paper. Many factors, including the mindset of the people and the habits of those already in government, affect how a country is run. Political scientists and historians will find Bagehot's commentary on the living English government and invaluable tool in understanding the politics of the era. British journalist WALTER BAGEHOT (1826-1877) was an early editor of The Economist and was among the first economists to discuss the concept of the business cycle. He is also the author of Physics and Politics (1872) and The Postulates of English Political Economy (1885). |
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Página x
... tion . Generally one generation in politics succeeds another almost silently ; at every moment men of all ages between thirty and seventy have considerable in- fluence ; each year removes many old men , makes all others older , brings ...
... tion . Generally one generation in politics succeeds another almost silently ; at every moment men of all ages between thirty and seventy have considerable in- fluence ; each year removes many old men , makes all others older , brings ...
Página xvi
... tion . Generally , the debates upon the passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be ex- pected of it . But the debates on the Reform Act of 1867 hardly tell anything . They are taken up with techni- calities as ...
... tion . Generally , the debates upon the passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be ex- pected of it . But the debates on the Reform Act of 1867 hardly tell anything . They are taken up with techni- calities as ...
Página xix
... tion it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ; it can only decide upon the issues of those topics And in ...
... tion it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ; it can only decide upon the issues of those topics And in ...
Página xxi
... right in detesting it ; if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruc- tion formally without telling his audience " I am better than you ; I have studied this as you have INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxi.
... right in detesting it ; if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruc- tion formally without telling his audience " I am better than you ; I have studied this as you have INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxi.
Página xxv
... tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ; there was a ...
... tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ; there was a ...
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No I | 1 |
No II | 33 |
No III | 57 |
No IV | 89 |
No V | 130 |
No VI | 176 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 219 |
No VIII | 254 |
No IX | 272 |
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Página xxxix - Commanding-in-Chief downwards ; she could dismiss all the sailors too ; she could sell off all our ships of war and all our naval stores ; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer ; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a " university ;" she could dismiss most of the civil servants ; she could pardon all offenders.
Página xxiv - But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and for their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude; that a permanent combination of them would make them (now that so many of them have the suffrage) supreme in the country; and that their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignorance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge.
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Institutional Theory in Political Science: The 'new Institutionalism' B. Guy Peters Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |