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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... England we have had so few catastrophes since our constitution attained maturity , that we hardly appreciate this latent excellence . We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution — a representative man above all men fit for a great ...
... England we have had so few catastrophes since our constitution attained maturity , that we hardly appreciate this latent excellence . We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution — a representative man above all men fit for a great ...
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... England were men of far greater experience than himself . He might , and no doubt did , exercise a great , if not a commanding influence over Lord Malmesbury , but he could not rule Lord Palmerston . The old statesman who governed England ...
... England were men of far greater experience than himself . He might , and no doubt did , exercise a great , if not a commanding influence over Lord Malmesbury , but he could not rule Lord Palmerston . The old statesman who governed England ...
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... England , though it is so debited every day . Again , as our administration has in England this peculiar difficulty , so on the other hand foreign competing administrations have a peculiar advan- tage . Abroad a man under Government is ...
... England , though it is so debited every day . Again , as our administration has in England this peculiar difficulty , so on the other hand foreign competing administrations have a peculiar advan- tage . Abroad a man under Government is ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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