The English ConstitutionJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 388 páginas In one of Walter Bagehot's most prominent works, the English constitution is described, not from law books and as a lawyer would describe it, but from the actual working, as Bagehot himself had witnessed it, in his contact with ministers and the heads of government departments, and with the life of the society in which the politicians moved. The true springs and method of action are consequently described with a vivid freshness which gives the book a wonderful charm, and makes it really a new departure in the study of politics. |
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... whole day through; and their early education was so small that in most cases it is dubious whether even if they had much time, they could use it to good purpose. We have not enfranchised a class less needing to be guided by their.
... whole day through; and their early education was so small that in most cases it is dubious whether even if they had much time, they could use it to good purpose. We have not enfranchised a class less needing to be guided by their.
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... whole interest of the State, they will have done the greatest harm they can do. The future of this country depends on the happy working of a delicate experiment, and they will have done all they could to vitiate that experiment. Just ...
... whole interest of the State, they will have done the greatest harm they can do. The future of this country depends on the happy working of a delicate experiment, and they will have done all they could to vitiate that experiment. Just ...
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... whole one. We have to frame such tacit rules, to establish such ruling but unenacted customs, as will make the House of Lords yield to the Commons when and as often as our new Constitution requires that it should yield. I shall be asked ...
... whole one. We have to frame such tacit rules, to establish such ruling but unenacted customs, as will make the House of Lords yield to the Commons when and as often as our new Constitution requires that it should yield. I shall be asked ...
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... whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families and all titled families received more ready observance from those who were their equals, perhaps their superiors ...
... whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families and all titled families received more ready observance from those who were their equals, perhaps their superiors ...
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... whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its electioneering value is impaired . Besides , it is in the nature of the curious ...
... whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its electioneering value is impaired . Besides , it is in the nature of the curious ...
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THE CABINET | |
THE MONARCHY | |
THE MONARCHYcontinued | |
THE HOUSE OF LORDS | |
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS | |
ON CHANGES OF MINSTRY | |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | |
THE PREREQUISITES OF CABINET GOVERNMENT AND THE PECULIAR FORM WHICH THEY HAVE ASSUMED IN ENGLAND | |
ITS HISTORY AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT HISTORY CONCLUSION | |
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