The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... choose ? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich - whose plans were their plans . The electors only selected one or two wealthy men to carry out the schemes of one or two ...
... choose ? And each of those rich people was put forward by great parties whose notions were the notions of the rich - whose plans were their plans . The electors only selected one or two wealthy men to carry out the schemes of one or two ...
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... choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ...
... choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ...
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... chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is only the hireling of the nation , and does little save hurt it . I shall be told that this is very obvious , and that everybody knows that 2 and 2 make 4 , and that ...
... chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is only the hireling of the nation , and does little save hurt it . I shall be told that this is very obvious , and that everybody knows that 2 and 2 make 4 , and that ...
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... choosing House , and if a Government really possesses that , it thoroughly possesses nine - tenths of what it requires . The support of the Lords is an aid and a luxury ; that of the Commons is a strict and indispensable necessary ...
... choosing House , and if a Government really possesses that , it thoroughly possesses nine - tenths of what it requires . The support of the Lords is an aid and a luxury ; that of the Commons is a strict and indispensable necessary ...
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... choose men nor measures . The French assemblies under the Restored Monarchy seem to have been quieter , probably because being elected from a limited constituency they did not contain so many sec- tions of opinion ; they had fewer ...
... choose men nor measures . The French assemblies under the Restored Monarchy seem to have been quieter , probably because being elected from a limited constituency they did not contain so many sec- tions of opinion ; they had fewer ...
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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.