The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... of their representatives an obedience to those opinions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave 6 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... of their representatives an obedience to those opinions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave 6 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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... better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in these indisputable respects were superior also in the more intangible qualities of sense and knowledge . But the mass of the old electors did not analyze very much ...
... better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in these indisputable respects were superior also in the more intangible qualities of sense and knowledge . But the mass of the old electors did not analyze very much ...
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... better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more 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 ...
... better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more 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 ...
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... And they are right in detesting it , if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruction formally without telling his audience " I am better than you ; I have studied this as you have not INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 15.
... And they are right in detesting it , if a man cannot give guidance and communicate instruction formally without telling his audience " I am better than you ; I have studied this as you have not INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 15.
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... better ) , he has done his part . He will have given the text , the scribes in the newspapers will write the sermon . A statesman ought to show his own nature , and talk in a palpable way what is to him important truth . And so he will ...
... better ) , he has done his part . He will have given the text , the scribes in the newspapers will write the sermon . A statesman ought to show his own nature , and talk in a palpable way what is to him important truth . And so he will ...
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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.