The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1909 - 300 páginas |
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... electors was which of two rich people will you choose ? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich - whose plans were their plans . The electors only selected one or two ...
... electors was which of two rich people will you choose ? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich - whose plans were their plans . The electors only selected one or two ...
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... electors to their betters was the only way in which our old system could be maintained . No doubt countries can be imagined in which the mass of the electors would be thoroughly competent to form good opinions ; approximations to that ...
... electors to their betters was the only way in which our old system could be maintained . No doubt countries can be imagined in which the mass of the electors would be thoroughly competent to form good opinions ; approximations to that ...
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... electors take too much interest . They only elect a deputy to vote for Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Breckenridge , and the deputy only takes a ticket , and drops that ticket in an urn . He never chooses or thinks of choosing . He is but a mes ...
... electors take too much interest . They only elect a deputy to vote for Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Breckenridge , and the deputy only takes a ticket , and drops that ticket in an urn . He never chooses or thinks of choosing . He is but a mes ...
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... electors themselves to make them . The law may say all the adult males of a country shall vote , or those males who can read and write , or those who have £ 50 a year , or any persons any way defined , and then leave those voters to ...
... electors themselves to make them . The law may say all the adult males of a country shall vote , or those males who can read and write , or those who have £ 50 a year , or any persons any way defined , and then leave those voters to ...
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... electors of Westminster ; and they have never , since they had members , done themselves so great an honour . But what did the electors of Westminster know of Mr. Mill ? What fraction of his mind could be imagined by any percentage ...
... electors of Westminster ; and they have never , since they had members , done themselves so great an honour . But what did the electors of Westminster know of Mr. Mill ? What fraction of his mind could be imagined by any percentage ...
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