The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power . The difficulty is that the object is in constant change . An historical writer does not feel this difficulty ...
... difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power . The difficulty is that the object is in constant change . An historical writer does not feel this difficulty ...
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... difficulty has been constantly in my way in preparing a second edition of this book . It describes the English Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of ...
... difficulty has been constantly in my way in preparing a second edition of this book . It describes the English Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of ...
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... difficulty in answering this question . Generally , the debates upon the passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be expected of it . But the debates on the Reform Act of 1867 hardly tell anything . They are ...
... difficulty in answering this question . Generally , the debates upon the passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be expected of it . But the debates on the Reform Act of 1867 hardly tell anything . They are ...
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... difficulty ; we have to surmount the whole one . We have to frame such tacit rules , to establisn such ruling but unenacted customs , as will make the House of Lords yield to the Commons when and as often as our new Constitution ...
... difficulty ; we have to surmount the whole one . We have to frame such tacit rules , to establisn such ruling but unenacted customs , as will make the House of Lords yield to the Commons when and as often as our new Constitution ...
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... difficulties are particularly raised by questions of foreign policy . On most domestic subjects , either custom or legislation have limited the use of the prerogative . The mode of governing the country , according to the 34 THE ENGLISH ...
... difficulties are particularly raised by questions of foreign policy . On most domestic subjects , either custom or legislation have limited the use of the prerogative . The mode of governing the country , according to the 34 THE ENGLISH ...
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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.