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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... believe it to be a great defect . If the Administration had in both Houses a majority - not a mechanical majority ready to accept any- thing , but a fair and reasonable one , predisposed to think the Government right , but not ready to ...
... believe it to be a great defect . If the Administration had in both Houses a majority - not a mechanical majority ready to accept any- thing , but a fair and reasonable one , predisposed to think the Government right , but not ready to ...
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... believe , the policy would soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assem- bly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often ...
... believe , the policy would soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assem- bly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often ...
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... believe that they have a mystic obligation to obey her . When her family came to the Crown it was a sort of treason to maintain the inalien- able right of lineal sovereignty , for it was equivalent to saying that the claim of another ...
... believe that they have a mystic obligation to obey her . When her family came to the Crown it was a sort of treason to maintain the inalien- able right of lineal sovereignty , for it was equivalent to saying that the claim of another ...
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... believe that at the accession of George III . the instinctive sentiment of hereditary loyalty at once became as useful as now . It began to be powerful , but it hardly began to be useful . There was so much harm done by it as well as so ...
... believe that at the accession of George III . the instinctive sentiment of hereditary loyalty at once became as useful as now . It began to be powerful , but it hardly began to be useful . There was so much harm done by it as well as so ...
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... believe that the admired actor is greater than them- selves . In this present age and country it would be very dangerous to give the slightest addition to a force already perilously great . If the highest social rank was to be scrambled ...
... believe that the admired actor is greater than them- selves . In this present age and country it would be very dangerous to give the slightest addition to a force already perilously great . If the highest social rank was to be scrambled ...
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Página 72 - 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 73 - 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.
Página 14 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
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Página 10 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
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