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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... influence in the Commons , and swayed the Commons , sat there . Aristocratic influence was so powerful in the House of Commons , that there never was any serious breach of unity . When the Houses quarrelled , it was , as in the great ...
... influence in the Commons , and swayed the Commons , sat there . Aristocratic influence was so powerful in the House of Commons , that there never was any serious breach of unity . When the Houses quarrelled , it was , as in the great ...
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... influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men collectively ; it is an influence which most men at least most Englishmen - feel very much , but of which most Englishmen are somewhat ashamed . Accordingly , when any number ...
... influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men collectively ; it is an influence which most men at least most Englishmen - feel very much , but of which most Englishmen are somewhat ashamed . Accordingly , when any number ...
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... influence ? If we prefer real weight to unreal prestige , why may we not have it ? ' The reply is , that the whole body of the Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they ...
... influence ? If we prefer real weight to unreal prestige , why may we not have it ? ' The reply is , that the whole body of the Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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