The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... action in human nature , the exercise of power by individ- uals or political bodies , the adaptation of institutions to the qualities and circumstances of the different classes who live under them , and numerous points of political ...
... action in human nature , the exercise of power by individ- uals or political bodies , the adaptation of institutions to the qualities and circumstances of the different classes who live under them , and numerous points of political ...
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... easily find themselves committed to anti - aristocratic sen- timents which are the direct opposite of their real feeling , and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 25.
... easily find themselves committed to anti - aristocratic sen- timents which are the direct opposite of their real feeling , and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 25.
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Walter Bagehot. and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank while the secret sentiment of each separately is especially favourable to rank . In 1832 the close boroughs , which were largely held by peers , and were still ...
Walter Bagehot. and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank while the secret sentiment of each separately is especially favourable to rank . In 1832 the close boroughs , which were largely held by peers , and were still ...
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... would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 27.
... would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 27.
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Walter Bagehot. and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank while the secret sentiment of each separately is especially favourable to rank . In 1832 the close boroughs , which were largely held by peers , and were still ...
Walter Bagehot. and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to rank while the secret sentiment of each separately is especially favourable to rank . In 1832 the close boroughs , which were largely held by peers , and were still ...
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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.