The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very prevalent idea when the first edition of this book was published — that there then was an unrepresented class of skilled artizans ...
... able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very prevalent idea when the first edition of this book was published — that there then was an unrepresented class of skilled artizans ...
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... , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party take and feel . They think it will strengthen the Lords , 6 and so make them better able to oppose the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 29.
... , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party take and feel . They think it will strengthen the Lords , 6 and so make them better able to oppose the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 29.
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... able , might very likely attempt to make ability the predominant power in the state , and to rival , if not con- quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the ...
... able , might very likely attempt to make ability the predominant power in the state , and to rival , if not con- quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the ...
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... able to commit the country to the greatest international obligations without consulting either Parliament or the country . No other select com- mittee has any comparable power ; and considering how carefully we have fettered and limited ...
... able to commit the country to the greatest international obligations without consulting either Parliament or the country . No other select com- mittee has any comparable power ; and considering how carefully we have fettered and limited ...
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... able to handle Parliaments and to govern Parliaments , M. Thiers was the only one still physically able to begin again to do so . The miracle is , that at seventy - four even he should still be able . As no other great chief of the ...
... able to handle Parliaments and to govern Parliaments , M. Thiers was the only one still physically able to begin again to do so . The miracle is , that at seventy - four even he should still be able . As no other great chief of the ...
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Página 162 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 315 - After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Página 44 - ... she could sell off all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'university'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders. In a word, the Queen could by prerogative upset all the action of civil government within the government, could...
Página 102 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
Página 98 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.