The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 292 páginas |
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Página ix
... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
Página xii
... soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the ...
... soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the ...
Página xxxvii
... soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
... soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
Página liv
... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impossible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impossible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
Página lvi
... soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would ...
... soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would ...
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