The English ConstitutionH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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... heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it . On the other side , many , probably most of the intelligent Liberals , were in conster- nation at the Bill ; they had been in ...
... heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it . On the other side , many , probably most of the intelligent Liberals , were in conster- nation at the Bill ; they had been in ...
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... heads of the plutocracy . In all countries new wealth is ready to worship old wealth , if old wealth will only let it , and I need not say that in England new wealth is eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how ...
... heads of the plutocracy . In all countries new wealth is ready to worship old wealth , if old wealth will only let it , and I need not say that in England new wealth is eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how ...
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... heads of the party who may have to decide similar things , or even the same things , themselves will not permit it . They refuse , out of interest as well as out of patriotism , to engage the country in a permanent foreign scrape , to ...
... heads of the party who may have to decide similar things , or even the same things , themselves will not permit it . They refuse , out of interest as well as out of patriotism , to engage the country in a permanent foreign scrape , to ...
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... head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the chiefs before the twenty years ' silence , of the eminent men known to be able to handle Parliaments and to govern Parliaments , M. Thiers was the ...
... head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the chiefs before the twenty years ' silence , of the eminent men known to be able to handle Parliaments and to govern Parliaments , M. Thiers was the ...
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... head of a party .. On the contrary , being the one person essential to all parties , he selects Ministers from all parties , he constructs a cabinet in which no one Minister agrees with any other in anything , and with all the members ...
... head of a party .. On the contrary , being the one person essential to all parties , he selects Ministers from all parties , he constructs a cabinet in which no one Minister agrees with any other in anything , and with all the members ...
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