The English ConstitutionOxford University Press, 1928 - 312 páginas |
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Página xiii
... Chamber ; but it plays , and in modern times has always played , a secondary part . It is true that we have a Monarchy ; but what , under the Cabinet system , can the Monarch have to do but act on the advice of his Ministers , take the ...
... Chamber ; but it plays , and in modern times has always played , a secondary part . It is true that we have a Monarchy ; but what , under the Cabinet system , can the Monarch have to do but act on the advice of his Ministers , take the ...
Página xiv
... Chamber has rarely been successfully disputed ; and the House of Lords , though not the invention of constitution - makers , has long and honourably filled that position . It has never striven for domination . It has never been corrupt ...
... Chamber has rarely been successfully disputed ; and the House of Lords , though not the invention of constitution - makers , has long and honourably filled that position . It has never striven for domination . It has never been corrupt ...
Página xv
... Chamber is concerned . I am not arguing , be it ob- served , that this operation would necessarily be wrong . That is not my business . I am only observing that it should be called by its right name . It should not be a remedy but a ...
... Chamber is concerned . I am not arguing , be it ob- served , that this operation would necessarily be wrong . That is not my business . I am only observing that it should be called by its right name . It should not be a remedy but a ...
Página 24
... chamber is greedy and covetous ; it acquires as much , it concedes as little as possible . The passions of its members are its rulers ; the law - making faculty , the most compre- hensive of the imperial faculties , is its instrument ...
... chamber is greedy and covetous ; it acquires as much , it concedes as little as possible . The passions of its members are its rulers ; the law - making faculty , the most compre- hensive of the imperial faculties , is its instrument ...
Página 45
... The names of levee and drawing - room still sustain the memory of the time when the king's bed - chamber and the queen's ' withdrawing room ' were the centres of London life , but they no longer make a part of THE MONARCHY 45.
... The names of levee and drawing - room still sustain the memory of the time when the king's bed - chamber and the queen's ' withdrawing room ' were the centres of London life , but they no longer make a part of THE MONARCHY 45.
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