The English ConstitutionHenry S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas |
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... English Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of Lord Palmer- ston ; and since that time there have been many changes , some of spirit and some of detail ...
... English Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of Lord Palmer- ston ; and since that time there have been many changes , some of spirit and some of detail ...
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... English people ; if there is anything which English people thoroughly detest , it is that tone exactly . And they are right in detesting it ; if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruction formally without telling his ...
... English people ; if there is anything which English people thoroughly detest , it is that tone exactly . And they are right in detesting it ; if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruction formally without telling his ...
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... English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ...
... English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ...
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Walter Bagehot. average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English ...
Walter Bagehot. average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English ...
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... English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real interest of England , or anything which would lower England ...
... English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real interest of England , or anything which would lower England ...
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