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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 enough to explain to them that they have such power .
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 enough to explain to them that they have such power .
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Nor does the experience of the last election much help us . The circumstances were too exceptional . In the first place , Mr. Gladstone's personal popularity was such as has not been seen since the time of Mr. Pitt , and such as may ...
Nor does the experience of the last election much help us . The circumstances were too exceptional . In the first place , Mr. Gladstone's personal popularity was such as has not been seen since the time of Mr. Pitt , and such as may ...
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At the last election , the trial of the new system hardly began , and , as far as it did begin , it was favoured by a peculiar guidance . In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years ...
At the last election , the trial of the new system hardly began , and , as far as it did begin , it was favoured by a peculiar guidance . In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years ...
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At an election the non - titled are much more powerful than the titled . Certain individual peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal ...
At an election the non - titled are much more powerful than the titled . Certain individual peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal ...
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... the nation being ( as are all nations capable of Parliamentary institutions ) constantly attentive to public affairs , would inflict on them the maximum Parliamentary penalty at the next election and at many future elections .
... the nation being ( as are all nations capable of Parliamentary institutions ) constantly attentive to public affairs , would inflict on them the maximum Parliamentary penalty at the next election and at many future elections .
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| Título | The English Constitution Volumen3 de The Paternoster library |
| Autor | Walter Bagehot |
| Edición | 2 |
| Editor | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 30 Jul. 2008 |
| Largo | 292 páginas |
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