The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed postponed ...
... Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed postponed ...
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... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too , that ...
... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too , that ...
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... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is primâ facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is primâ facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
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... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
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... assembly . Secondly , it may be objected to the change suggested that Parliament is not always sitting , and that if treaties required its assent , it might have to be sometimes sum- moned out of season , or the treaties would have to ...
... assembly . Secondly , it may be objected to the change suggested that Parliament is not always sitting , and that if treaties required its assent , it might have to be sometimes sum- moned out of season , or the treaties would have to ...
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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.