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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... wish to gratify an ambition laudable or blameable ; they wish to promote the measures they think best for the public welfare ; they wish to make their will felt in great affairs . All these mixed motives urge them to oppose the ...
... wish to gratify an ambition laudable or blameable ; they wish to promote the measures they think best for the public welfare ; they wish to make their will felt in great affairs . All these mixed motives urge them to oppose the ...
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... wish to dazzle , than three - quarters of a million in trying to dazzle and yet not dazzling . ' There may be something in this theory ; it may be that the Court of England is not quite as gorgeous as we might wish to see it . But no ...
... wish to dazzle , than three - quarters of a million in trying to dazzle and yet not dazzling . ' There may be something in this theory ; it may be that the Court of England is not quite as gorgeous as we might wish to see it . But no ...
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... wish to be a despot , ' to hunger after tyranny ' , as the Greek phrase had it , marks in our day an uncultivated mind . A person who so wishes cannot have weighed what Butler calls the ' doubtfulness things are involved in ' . To be ...
... wish to be a despot , ' to hunger after tyranny ' , as the Greek phrase had it , marks in our day an uncultivated mind . A person who so wishes cannot have weighed what Butler calls the ' doubtfulness things are involved in ' . To be ...
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PAGE | 115 |
ON CHANGES OF MINISTRY | 156 |
ITS SUPPOSED CHECKS AND BALANCES | 194 |
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