The English ConstitutionOxford University Press, 1928 - 312 páginas |
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... legislature , presided over by a Prime Minister , and entirely dependent on a House of Commons which we ourselves have chosen . What more is there to be said ? It is true that we have a Second Chamber ; but it plays , and in modern ...
... legislature , presided over by a Prime Minister , and entirely dependent on a House of Commons which we ourselves have chosen . What more is there to be said ? It is true that we have a Second Chamber ; but it plays , and in modern ...
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... legislature can manufacture in any people . These semi - filial feelings in government are in- herited just as the true filial feelings in common life . You might as well adopt a father as make a monarchy ; the special sentiment ...
... legislature can manufacture in any people . These semi - filial feelings in government are in- herited just as the true filial feelings in common life . You might as well adopt a father as make a monarchy ; the special sentiment ...
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... legislature has many committees , but this is the greatest . It chooses for this , its main committee , the men in whom it has most confidence . It does not , it is true , choose them directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing ...
... legislature has many committees , but this is the greatest . It chooses for this , its main committee , the men in whom it has most confidence . It does not , it is true , choose them directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing ...
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... legislature , and the real prime minister for most purposes — the leader of the House of Commons - almost without exception is so . There is nearly always some one man plainly selected by the voice of the predominant party in the ...
... legislature , and the real prime minister for most purposes — the leader of the House of Commons - almost without exception is so . There is nearly always some one man plainly selected by the voice of the predominant party in the ...
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... legislature- are accidents unessential to its definition - historical incidents separable from its nature . Its character- istic is that it should be chosen by the legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the legis- lature ...
... legislature- are accidents unessential to its definition - historical incidents separable from its nature . Its character- istic is that it should be chosen by the legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the legis- lature ...
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