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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... defect of imagination , and expose an incapacity for dealing with men , which would be a great hindrance to him in his calling . But much argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument ...
... defect of imagination , and expose an incapacity for dealing with men , which would be a great hindrance to him in his calling . But much argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument ...
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... defects in it . The first is that it may not be a remedy at all ; it may be only a punishment . A Minister may risk his dismissal ; he may do some act difficult to undo , and then all which may be left will be to remove and censure him ...
... defects in it . The first is that it may not be a remedy at all ; it may be only a punishment . A Minister may risk his dismissal ; he may do some act difficult to undo , and then all which may be left will be to remove and censure him ...
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... 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 find it to be so in the ...
... 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 find it to be so in the ...
Página xliv
... defects in our present practice would seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their ...
... defects in our present practice would seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their ...
Página lxiv
... defects of Parliamentary Government probably is the difficulty under it of maintaining a surplus revenue to discharge debt , and this defect Presidential Government escapes , though at the cost of being likely to maintain that sur- plus ...
... defects of Parliamentary Government probably is the difficulty under it of maintaining a surplus revenue to discharge debt , and this defect Presidential Government escapes , though at the cost of being likely to maintain that sur- plus ...
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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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