 would be elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest man in the country. The vice-presidentship being a sinecure, a second-rate man agreeable to the wire-pullers is always smuggled in. The chance of succession to the presidentship is too distant...  The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot - Página 177por Walter Bagehot - 1915Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter Bagehot - 1873 - 362 páginas
...the system of cabinet government * The framers of the constitution expected that the vice-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second...the presidentship is too distant to be thought of. are not only household words, but household, ideas. A conception, not, perhaps, in all respects a true... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1882 - 426 páginas
...smallness at a crisis of unknown great* The framers of the constitution expected that the vice-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second...wire-pullers is always smuggled in. The chance of sue. cession to the presidentship is too distant to be thought of. ness is to our minds simply ludicrous.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1893 - 550 páginas
...true, happened to be a man, * The framers of the constitution expected that the we-president would tie elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest...always smuggled in. The chance of succession to the praridentship is too distant to be thought of. if not of eminent ability, yet of eminent justness.... | |
 | 1901 - 486 páginas
...known men, except at peculiar con* The framers of the Constitution expected that the vice-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second...the presidentship is too distant to be thought of. junctures, and in moments when public opinion is excited and despotic; and consequently, if a crisis... | |
 | 1901 - 484 páginas
...known men, except at peculiar con• The framers of the Constitution expected that the vice-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second...the presidentship is too distant to be thought of. junctures, and in moments when public opinion is excited and despotic; and consequently, if a crisis... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1966 - 328 páginas
...left with the visible sovereignty 1 The framers of the Constitution expected that the «'«-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second...the presidentship is too distant to be thought of. in the hands of an unknown man. The notion of employing a man of unknown smallness at a crisis of unknown... | |
 | Bagehot - 2001 - 300 páginas
...consequently, if a crisis comes upon • The framers of the constitutioc expected that the Via-President would be elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest man in the country. The vicc-presidentship being a sinecure, a second-rate man agreeable to the wire-pullers is always smuggled... | |
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