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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... matter which the absorbed and occupied actor could not see . There ought to be many life- peers in our secondary chamber capable of giving us this higher criticism . I am afraid we shall not soon see them , but as a first step we should ...
... matter which the absorbed and occupied actor could not see . There ought to be many life- peers in our secondary chamber capable of giving us this higher criticism . I am afraid we shall not soon see them , but as a first step we should ...
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... matter whether it thinks wisely or unwisely , that same something , wise or unwise , will be thoroughly well said in ... matter of great mag- nitude , for it is only a first - class matter in distant things which a free people ever sees ...
... matter whether it thinks wisely or unwisely , that same something , wise or unwise , will be thoroughly well said in ... matter of great mag- nitude , for it is only a first - class matter in distant things which a free people ever sees ...
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... matter . All the principles of finance would have been worked and propounded . The light would have come from above , not from below - it would have come from Parliament to the nation instead of from the nation to Parliament . But ...
... matter . All the principles of finance would have been worked and propounded . The light would have come from above , not from below - it would have come from Parliament to the nation instead of from the nation to Parliament . But ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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