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... a professed friend of the people , have not that confidence ; if that is so , we will never vote for you again . " Many Radical members who had been asking for years for household suffrage were much 8 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
... a professed friend of the people , have not that confidence ; if that is so , we will never vote for you again . " Many Radical members who had been asking for years for household suffrage were much 8 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
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... vote with Mr. Gladstone , and the constitu- encies only chose those who said so . Even the minority could only be ... voted as they had been told , and the new voters mostly voted with them ; in extremely few cases was there any new and ...
... vote with Mr. Gladstone , and the constitu- encies only chose those who said so . Even the minority could only be ... voted as they had been told , and the new voters mostly voted with them ; in extremely few cases was there any new and ...
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... vote in our affairs , both parties will beg and pray him to give that vote to them . I can conceive of nothing more corrupting or worse for a set of poor ignorant people than that two combinations of well - taught and rich men should ...
... vote in our affairs , both parties will beg and pray him to give that vote to them . I can conceive of nothing more corrupting or worse for a set of poor ignorant people than that two combinations of well - taught and rich men should ...
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... voting power . The courage which strengthens an enemy , and which so loses not only the present battle but many after battles , is a heavy curse to men and nations . In one minor respect , indeed , I think we may see with distinctness ...
... voting power . The courage which strengthens an enemy , and which so loses not only the present battle but many after battles , is a heavy curse to men and nations . In one minor respect , indeed , I think we may see with distinctness ...
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... vote of censure . Most of the ministries for thirty years have never possessed the confidence of the Lords , and in such cases a vote of censure by the Lords could therefore have but little weight THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 25.
... vote of censure . Most of the ministries for thirty years have never possessed the confidence of the Lords , and in such cases a vote of censure by the Lords could therefore have but little weight THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 25.
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The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton, Volumen4 Walter Bagehot Vista completa - 1891 |
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Página 112 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights : the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn; and a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others, — he would find that his having no others would enable him to use these with singular effect.
Página 111 - Secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 450 - It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association ; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully excluded.
Página 132 - It can alter bills ; it can reject bills on which the House of Commons is not yet thoroughly in earnest, upon which the nation is not yet determined. Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto : they say, We reject your bill for this once, or these twice, or even these thrice ; but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
Página 255 - Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
Página 82 - ... small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be. The women — one half the human race at least — care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
Página 59 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página 582 - In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two...
Página 441 - Of this we may at least be certain, that all ancient societies regarded themselves as having proceeded from one original stock, and even laboured under an incapacity for comprehending any reason except this for their holding together in political union. The history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood is the sole possible ground of community in political functions...
Página 197 - In an ordinary despotism, the powers of a despot are limited by his bodily capacity, and by the calls of pleasure; he is but one man: there are but twelve hours in his day, and he is not disposed to employ more than a small part in dull business; he keeps the rest for the court, or the harem...