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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... leader , and who therefore should be its premier . The sovereign must now accept that recognized leader ; and if the choice were directly made by the House of Commons , the House must also choose him ; its supreme section , acting ...
... leader , and who therefore should be its premier . The sovereign must now accept that recognized leader ; and if the choice were directly made by the House of Commons , the House must also choose him ; its supreme section , acting ...
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... leaders . Change your leader if you will , take another if you will , but obey No. 1 while you serve No. 1 , and obey No. 2 when you have gone over to No. 2. The penalty of not doing so , is the penalty of impotence . It is not that you ...
... leaders . Change your leader if you will , take another if you will , but obey No. 1 while you serve No. 1 , and obey No. 2 when you have gone over to No. 2. The penalty of not doing so , is the penalty of impotence . It is not that you ...
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... leader in the Commons , was an existing Government , had a premier in the Lords ready to go on , and a leader in the Commons willing to begin . The King fancied that public opinion was leaving the Whigs and going over to the Tories ...
... leader in the Commons , was an existing Government , had a premier in the Lords ready to go on , and a leader in the Commons willing to begin . The King fancied that public opinion was leaving the Whigs and going over to the Tories ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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