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 xii
... perhaps the only severely - taxed man in the country . He paid the rates , the tea , sugar , tobacco , malt , and spirit taxes , as well as the income tax , but his means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in ...
... perhaps the only severely - taxed man in the country . He paid the rates , the tea , sugar , tobacco , malt , and spirit taxes , as well as the income tax , but his means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in ...
Página xv
... perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it ...
... perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it ...
Página xxiv
... perhaps be astonished at the small degree in which it contributes to the active part of our governing Assembly . The spirit . of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men ...
... perhaps be astonished at the small degree in which it contributes to the active part of our governing Assembly . The spirit . of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men ...
Página xxviii
... perhaps their superiors , in wealth , their equals in culture , and their inferiors only in descent and rank . The possessors of the " material " distinctions of life , as a political economist would class them , rush to worship those ...
... perhaps their superiors , in wealth , their equals in culture , and their inferiors only in descent and rank . The possessors of the " material " distinctions of life , as a political economist would class them , rush to worship those ...
Página lviii
... perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . This was the most striking instance of disunion between the President and the Congress that has ever yet occurred , and which probably will ever ...
... perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . This was the most striking instance of disunion between the President and the Congress that has ever yet occurred , and which probably will ever ...
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