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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Página xvii
... mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ...
... mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ...
Página xix
... mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with . But , upon the other hand , in quiet times statesmen have great power ; when there is no fire ...
... mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with . But , upon the other hand , in quiet times statesmen have great power ; when there is no fire ...
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... mind . Whether or not the nation has made up mind is a question to be decided by all the circumstances of the case , and in the common way in which all practical questions are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of ...
... mind . Whether or not the nation has made up mind is a question to be decided by all the circumstances of the case , and in the common way in which all practical questions are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of ...
Página xxxiii
... minds with its cusps and conjugate points . Nor , on the other hand , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party take and feel . They think it will strengthen the Lords , b and so make them ...
... minds with its cusps and conjugate points . Nor , on the other hand , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party take and feel . They think it will strengthen the Lords , b and so make them ...
Página xlvi
... mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed at its states- men , and angry at its newspapers . A little more of such perplexity and such vexation does not seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole ...
... mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed at its states- men , and angry at its newspapers . A little more of such perplexity and such vexation does not seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole ...
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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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