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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... eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how quick , how willing , how anxious are the newly - made rich to associate with the ancient rich . Rank probably in no country whatever has so much " market " value as it has ...
... eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how quick , how willing , how anxious are the newly - made rich to associate with the ancient rich . Rank probably in no country whatever has so much " market " value as it has ...
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... eager enough to make an immense number of life peers , pro- bably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely . Of course one may fancy it to be otherwise ; we may conceive of a political storm just going ...
... eager enough to make an immense number of life peers , pro- bably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely . Of course one may fancy it to be otherwise ; we may conceive of a political storm just going ...
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... eager to speak , and gives them occasions to speak . The deciding catastrophes of cabinet govern- ments are critical divisions preceded by fine discussions . Everything which is worth saying , everything which ought to be said , most ...
... eager to speak , and gives them occasions to speak . The deciding catastrophes of cabinet govern- ments are critical divisions preceded by fine discussions . Everything which is worth saying , everything which ought to be said , most ...
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... eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required - are impediments- in common times . A Lord Liverpool is better in every- day politics than a Chatham - a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon . By the structure of the world we ...
... eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required - are impediments- in common times . A Lord Liverpool is better in every- day politics than a Chatham - a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon . By the structure of the world we ...
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... eager to take Queen Anne as the stock of a new dynasty ; they were ready to ignore the claims of her father and the claims of her brother , but they could not ignore the fact that at the critical period she had no children . She had ...
... eager to take Queen Anne as the stock of a new dynasty ; they were ready to ignore the claims of her father and the claims of her brother , but they could not ignore the fact that at the critical period she had no children . She had ...
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