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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... persons , sometimes few , sometimes many , never , the sanie for an hour ; sometimes excited , but mostly dull and half weary , -impatient of eloquence , catching at any joke as an alleviation . These are the persons who rule the ...
... persons , sometimes few , sometimes many , never , the sanie for an hour ; sometimes excited , but mostly dull and half weary , -impatient of eloquence , catching at any joke as an alleviation . These are the persons who rule the ...
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... persons close to the scene of action ; it is the judgement of persons judging in the last resort and without a penalty , in lieu of persons judging in fear of a dissolution , and ever conscious that they are subject to an appeal . Most ...
... persons close to the scene of action ; it is the judgement of persons judging in the last resort and without a penalty , in lieu of persons judging in fear of a dissolution , and ever conscious that they are subject to an appeal . Most ...
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... persons in Eng- land , the persons he most wanted to advise him , and the persons whose tempers he was most anxious to ascertain . Exactly who came to it at first is obscure and unimportant . I need not distinguish between the ' magnum ...
... persons in Eng- land , the persons he most wanted to advise him , and the persons whose tempers he was most anxious to ascertain . Exactly who came to it at first is obscure and unimportant . I need not distinguish between the ' magnum ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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