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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... Premier as we should call him - to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the National As- sembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and familiar Republics , and in these the system was exactly opposite ...
... Premier as we should call him - to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the National As- sembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and familiar Republics , and in these the system was exactly opposite ...
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Walter Bagehot. Assembly . He comes down and speaks in it just as our Premier does ; he is responsible for managing it just as our Premier is . No one can any longer doubt the possi- bility of a republic in which the Executive and the ...
Walter Bagehot. Assembly . He comes down and speaks in it just as our Premier does ; he is responsible for managing it just as our Premier is . No one can any longer doubt the possi- bility of a republic in which the Executive and the ...
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... Premier governs . He is not , he boasts that he is not , the 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 ...
... Premier governs . He is not , he boasts that he is not , the 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 ...
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... Premier being appointed by the selection , and being removable at the pleasure , of the preponderant Legislative Assembly , is sure to be able to rely on that assembly . If he wants legislation to aid his policy he can obtain that ...
... Premier being appointed by the selection , and being removable at the pleasure , of the preponderant Legislative Assembly , is sure to be able to rely on that assembly . If he wants legislation to aid his policy he can obtain that ...
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... premier — which was chosen , as Americans might say , upon the " Palmer- ston ticket " -before it had been in existence two years , dethroned Lord Palmerston . Though selected in the interest of a particular ministry , it in fact ...
... premier — which was chosen , as Americans might say , upon the " Palmer- ston ticket " -before it had been in existence two years , dethroned Lord Palmerston . Though selected in the interest of a particular ministry , it in fact ...
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