The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1909 - 300 páginas |
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... assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not / of aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed ...
... assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not / of aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed ...
Página xxxvii
... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of sub- stantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too ...
... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of sub- stantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too ...
Página xli
... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is prima facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is prima facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
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... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
Página liii
... Assembly . He comes down and speaks in it just as our Premier does ; he is responsible for managing it just as our Premier is . No one can any longer doubt the possibility of a republic in which the Executive and the Legislative ...
... Assembly . He comes down and speaks in it just as our Premier does ; he is responsible for managing it just as our Premier is . No one can any longer doubt the possibility of a republic in which the Executive and the Legislative ...
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