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 xxxii
... leader of the Tory party in the Lords - Lord Lyndhurst defeated the last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for ...
... leader of the Tory party in the Lords - Lord Lyndhurst defeated the last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for ...
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... leader than ensure its own ruin . And an English minority , inheriting a long expe- rience of Parliamentary affairs , would not be exceedingly ready to reject a treaty made with a foreign Government . The leaders of an English ...
... leader than ensure its own ruin . And an English minority , inheriting a long expe- rience of Parliamentary affairs , would not be exceedingly ready to reject a treaty made with a foreign Government . The leaders of an English ...
Página xlii
Walter Bagehot. the leaders of the Opposition - were in constant tacit league to suppress the objections of independent members . And what he said is often quite true . There are often seeming objections which are not real objections ...
Walter Bagehot. the leaders of the Opposition - were in constant tacit league to suppress the objections of independent members . And what he said is often quite true . There are often seeming objections which are not real objections ...
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... leaders of Opposition are nearly sure to suggest every objection . The thing is done and cannot be undone , and the most natural wish of the Opposition leaders is to prove that if they had been in office , and it therefore had been ...
... leaders of Opposition are nearly sure to suggest every objection . The thing is done and cannot be undone , and the most natural wish of the Opposition leaders is to prove that if they had been in office , and it therefore had been ...
Página xlviii
... leaders have made if they fairly can . They will not be anxious to disagree with them . But the majority of the House of Lords may always be , and has lately been generally an opposition majority , and therefore the treaty may be ...
... leaders have made if they fairly can . They will not be anxious to disagree with them . But the majority of the House of Lords may always be , and has lately been generally an opposition majority , and therefore the treaty may be ...
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