The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1909 - 300 páginas |
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Página xii
... arguing that so important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the ...
... arguing that so important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the ...
Página xxii
... argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few ...
... argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few ...
Página xxxiii
... argument for it , but you cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal ...
... argument for it , but you cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal ...
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... arguments to prove that these dignified parts of old governments are cardinal opponents of the essential apparatus , great pivots of substantial utility ; and so they manufactured fallacies which the plainer school have well exposed ...
... arguments to prove that these dignified parts of old governments are cardinal opponents of the essential apparatus , great pivots of substantial utility ; and so they manufactured fallacies which the plainer school have well exposed ...
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... arguments . But under a presidential govern- ment , a nation has , except at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its virtue is gone , and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns ...
... arguments . But under a presidential govern- ment , a nation has , except at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its virtue is gone , and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns ...
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