The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... discussion of English institutions , de- signed to show how they operate , and to point out their defects and advantages . The writer is not so much a par- tisan or an advocate , as a cool , philosophical inquirer , with large knowledge ...
... discussion of English institutions , de- signed to show how they operate , and to point out their defects and advantages . The writer is not so much a par- tisan or an advocate , as a cool , philosophical inquirer , with large knowledge ...
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... discussions in Parliament to enlighten it as to the effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party . could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the ...
... discussions in Parliament to enlighten it as to the effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party . could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the ...
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... discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches their ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable - that it is the present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at ...
... discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches their ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable - that it is the present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at ...
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... discussion upon life peerages , and we have gained this great step , that whereas the former leader of the Tory party in the Lords - Lord Lyndhurst defeated the last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party ...
... discussion upon life peerages , and we have gained this great step , that whereas the former leader of the Tory party in the Lords - Lord Lyndhurst defeated the last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party ...
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... discussions have also brought into curious pro- minence another part of the Constitution . I said in this book that it would very much surprise people if they were only told how many things the Queen could do with out consulting ...
... discussions have also brought into curious pro- minence another part of the Constitution . I said in this book that it would very much surprise people if they were only told how many things the Queen could do with out consulting ...
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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.