The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 292 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 ...
Página xiv
... 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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... elector in Sièyes ' constitu- tion , which was an office copied , and M. Thiers says , well copied , from constitutional monarchy . But such objec- tions are wholly wrong . No doubt it was absurd enough in the Abbè Sièyes to propose ...
... elector in Sièyes ' constitu- tion , which was an office copied , and M. Thiers says , well copied , from constitutional monarchy . But such objec- tions are wholly wrong . No doubt it was absurd enough in the Abbè Sièyes to propose ...
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... elector . But the intro- duction of such an officer into such a colony would in fact be the voluntary erection of an artificial encumbrance to it . He would inevitably be a party man . The most dignified post in the State must be an ...
... elector . But the intro- duction of such an officer into such a colony would in fact be the voluntary erection of an artificial encumbrance to it . He would inevitably be a party man . The most dignified post in the State must be an ...
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