The English ConstitutionGarland Pub., 1978 - 291 páginas THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION provides the most lucid and readable account of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of the nineteenth century constitution, before the advent of universal male suffrage and the rise of party as the overriding force in the British policy. Many of Bagehot's insights remain either true, as a statement of basic principle, or even if no longer strictly accurate, fascinating in their partial applicability today. they convey a sharp sense of how the constitution has radically changed since the Victorian era, and yet paradoxically at a more basic level, remained the same. |
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... American war , perhaps he caused the American war , so we inherit the vestiges of an American hatred ; he forbad Mr. Pitt's wise plans , so we inherit an Irish difficulty . He would not THE MONARCHY 77.
... American war , perhaps he caused the American war , so we inherit the vestiges of an American hatred ; he forbad Mr. Pitt's wise plans , so we inherit an Irish difficulty . He would not THE MONARCHY 77.
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... American Constitution is so much praise to be given to the American political character . Few nations , perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . · This was the most striking instance of ...
... American Constitution is so much praise to be given to the American political character . Few nations , perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . · This was the most striking instance of ...
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... American - justly said some years since , the capital error made by the United States Government was the ' Legal Tender Act ' , as it is called , by which it made inconvertible paper notes issued by the Treasury the sole circulating ...
... American - justly said some years since , the capital error made by the United States Government was the ' Legal Tender Act ' , as it is called , by which it made inconvertible paper notes issued by the Treasury the sole circulating ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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