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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Página viii
... that several ruling directors who are about the same age live on for many years , manage the company all through those years , and then go off the scene almost together . In that case the affairs of viii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION :
... that several ruling directors who are about the same age live on for many years , manage the company all through those years , and then go off the scene almost together . In that case the affairs of viii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION :
Página xix
... live by public favour , as ours do , this is à hard saying , and it requires to be carefully limited . I do not mean that our statesmen should assume a pedantic and doctrinaire tone with the English people ; if there is anything which ...
... live by public favour , as ours do , this is à hard saying , and it requires to be carefully limited . I do not mean that our statesmen should assume a pedantic and doctrinaire tone with the English people ; if there is anything which ...
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... lives who may as likely as not turn against us . " This objection assumes that clever peers are just as likely to oppose the Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords ...
... lives who may as likely as not turn against us . " This objection assumes that clever peers are just as likely to oppose the Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords ...
Página xlvii
... lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations . The parties concerned would almost always be better for hearing the substantial reasons which induced the negotiators to make the treaty , and the ...
... lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations . The parties concerned would almost always be better for hearing the substantial reasons which induced the negotiators to make the treaty , and the ...
Página liv
... is . At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M. Thiers " the deluge , " and he lives upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in practice all but impossible liv INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... is . At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M. Thiers " the deluge , " and he lives upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in practice all but impossible liv INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
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