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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... force in the selection of a successor , whereas it is now the predominant though latent force . It will help the discussion very much if we divide it into three parts . The whole course of a repre- sentative government has three stages ...
... force in the selection of a successor , whereas it is now the predominant though latent force . It will help the discussion very much if we divide it into three parts . The whole course of a repre- sentative government has three stages ...
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... force , even when the peers were a first - rate force , because the greatest peers , those who had the greatest social importance , did not care for their own House , or like it . but gained great part of their political power by a ...
... force , even when the peers were a first - rate force , because the greatest peers , those who had the greatest social importance , did not care for their own House , or like it . but gained great part of their political power by a ...
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... force , fibre , and substance which they have never wanted , an ideal warmth and fervour which they have almost always wanted . Hence the saying that Cromwell founded the English Constitution . Of course , in seeming , Cromwell's work ...
... force , fibre , and substance which they have never wanted , an ideal warmth and fervour which they have almost always wanted . Hence the saying that Cromwell founded the English Constitution . Of course , in seeming , Cromwell's work ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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