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 vi
... present time , it would have been in many points untrue ; and if I had tried to change the sketch of seven years since into a sketch of the present time , I should probably have blurred the picture and have given something equally ...
... present time , it would have been in many points untrue ; and if I had tried to change the sketch of seven years since into a sketch of the present time , I should probably have blurred the picture and have given something equally ...
Página xviii
... present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . If the first work of the ...
... present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . If the first work of the ...
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... 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 the effect of the Reform Bill of 1867 xxii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... 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 the effect of the Reform Bill of 1867 xxii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
Página xxiv
... present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ancient descent or of great hereditary estate ; they are men mostly of substantial means , but they are mostly , too , connected ...
... present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ancient descent or of great hereditary estate ; they are men mostly of substantial means , but they are mostly , too , connected ...
Página xxvi
... present may fairly be assumed to be likely to continue permanently to convince them . One sort might easily fall into a temporary and erroneous fanaticism , but all sorts simultaneously are very unlikely to do so . I should venture so ...
... present may fairly be assumed to be likely to continue permanently to convince them . One sort might easily fall into a temporary and erroneous fanaticism , but all sorts simultaneously are very unlikely to do so . I should venture so ...
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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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