The English ConstitutionOxford University Press, 1928 - 312 páginas |
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... society . And it is evident that our whole political machinery pre - supposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker ; and so sure of their own modera- tion that they are not dangerously disturbed by the ...
... society . And it is evident that our whole political machinery pre - supposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker ; and so sure of their own modera- tion that they are not dangerously disturbed by the ...
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... society ; it gives hope to many , and it takes away hope from many . It is one of those marked events which , by its magnitude and its melodrama , impress men even too much . And debates which have this catastrophe at the end of them ...
... society ; it gives hope to many , and it takes away hope from many . It is one of those marked events which , by its magnitude and its melodrama , impress men even too much . And debates which have this catastrophe at the end of them ...
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Walter Bagehot. doors , the secret pervading disposition of society , has a great influence on that division . The nation feels that its judgement is important , and it strives to judge . It succeeds in deciding because the de- bates and ...
Walter Bagehot. doors , the secret pervading disposition of society , has a great influence on that division . The nation feels that its judgement is important , and it strives to judge . It succeeds in deciding because the de- bates and ...
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... society in question chances to contain . It is , what Washington and Hamilton strove to create , an electoral college of the picked men of the nation . The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look at the alternative . The ...
... society in question chances to contain . It is , what Washington and Hamilton strove to create , an electoral college of the picked men of the nation . The best mode of appreciating its advantages is to look at the alternative . The ...
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... society ad- hering to an executive ( and this is no inapt descrip- tion of a congress under a presidential constitution ) is not an object to stir a noble ambition , and is a position to encourage idleness . The members of a parliament ...
... society ad- hering to an executive ( and this is no inapt descrip- tion of a congress under a presidential constitution ) is not an object to stir a noble ambition , and is a position to encourage idleness . The members of a parliament ...
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