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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... called the Presidential system ; the British practice he described as the Cabinet system ; and if his readers desire to understand his con- ceptions of the latter , they cannot do better than observe where and how the two most obviously ...
... called the Presidential system ; the British practice he described as the Cabinet system ; and if his readers desire to understand his con- ceptions of the latter , they cannot do better than observe where and how the two most obviously ...
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... called ' a mean peace effected by desertion ' . But cases might easily be imagined in which one or two applications of this ' constitutional remedy ' under modern conditions would practically destroy the historic Constitution so far as ...
... called ' a mean peace effected by desertion ' . But cases might easily be imagined in which one or two applications of this ' constitutional remedy ' under modern conditions would practically destroy the historic Constitution so far as ...
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... called ) the pagan part of human nature , the inseparable obstinacy of freemen . They never would do exactly what ... called it , but the tentative assembly , as I think it might best be called . The king came down to his assembled ...
... called ) the pagan part of human nature , the inseparable obstinacy of freemen . They never would do exactly what ... called it , but the tentative assembly , as I think it might best be called . The king came down to his assembled ...
Contenido
PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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