The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Volumen4Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... executive - the premier , as we should call him to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the national assembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and fa- miliar republics , and in these the system was ...
... executive - the premier , as we should call him to be nominated and to be removable by the vote of the national assembly . The United States and its copies were the only present and fa- miliar republics , and in these the system was ...
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... executive authority nearest to him did not like it . The experiment of a strictly parliamentary republic - of a republic where the par- liament appoints the executive - is being tried in France at an extreme disadvantage , because in ...
... executive authority nearest to him did not like it . The experiment of a strictly parliamentary republic - of a republic where the par- liament appoints the executive - is being tried in France at an extreme disadvantage , because in ...
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... executive officer , and to compare it with that of a Prime Minister ; and I devoted much space to showing that in one principal respect the English system is by far the best . The English Premier being appointed by the selection , and ...
... executive officer , and to compare it with that of a Prime Minister ; and I devoted much space to showing that in one principal respect the English system is by far the best . The English Premier being appointed by the selection , and ...
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... executive were so tied together that the legislature tried , and tried in vain , to rid itself of the executive by accusing it of illegal practices ; the legislature was so afraid of the President's legal power that it unfairly accused ...
... executive were so tied together that the legislature tried , and tried in vain , to rid itself of the executive by accusing it of illegal practices ; the legislature was so afraid of the President's legal power that it unfairly accused ...
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... parliament would have allowed any executive to keep a surplus of this magnitude . In * David A. Wells , in " Cobden Club Essays , 1871–2 . " I - England , after the French war , the Government 42 THE TRAVELERS INS . Co.'s BAGEHOT .
... parliament would have allowed any executive to keep a surplus of this magnitude . In * David A. Wells , in " Cobden Club Essays , 1871–2 . " I - England , after the French war , the Government 42 THE TRAVELERS INS . Co.'s BAGEHOT .
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Página 111 - 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 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.
Página 62 - It is said that at the end of the Cabinet which agreed to propose a fixed duty on corn, Lord Melbourne put his back to the door and said, 'Now is it to lower the price of corn or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Página 82 - ... small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be.
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 434 - The effect of the evidence derived from comparative jurisprudence is to establish that view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the Patriarchal Theory.
Página 450 - Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes...
Página 582 - Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense which has just been given to it, we may say that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable himself and to be more respected by those around him. To produce new things " serviceable to man's life and conducive to man's estate...
Página 576 - ... sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought "; it enables, them to do the good things they see to be good, as well as to see that they are good. And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality. A strongly idiosyncratic mind, violently disposed to extremes of opinion, is soon weeded out of political life, and a bodiless thinker, an ineffectual scholar, cannot even live there for a day. A vigorous moderateness in mind and body is the rule of a polity which...