The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... elected member of Parliament , Conservative or Liberal , can ven- ture to say , that I am exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude of the new constituencies . I wish to have as great and as compact a power as possible to resist it ...
... elected member of Parliament , Conservative or Liberal , can ven- ture to say , that I am exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude of the new constituencies . I wish to have as great and as compact a power as possible to resist it ...
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... elected 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 ...
... elected 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 ...
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... elected from a limited constituency they did not contain so many sec- tions of opinion ; they had fewer irritants and fewer species of irritability . But the assemblies of the '48 Republic were disorderly in the extreme . I saw the last ...
... elected from a limited constituency they did not contain so many sec- tions of opinion ; they had fewer irritants and fewer species of irritability . But the assemblies of the '48 Republic were disorderly in the extreme . I saw the last ...
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... elected in one way , at one time , and Congress ( no matter which House ) is elected in another way , at another time . The two have nothing to bind them together , and , in matter of fact , they continually disagree . This was written ...
... elected in one way , at one time , and Congress ( no matter which House ) is elected in another way , at another time . The two have nothing to bind them together , and , in matter of fact , they continually disagree . This was written ...
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... elected yesterday , and will have to reject or re - elect to - morrow . In finance the most striking effect in America has , on the first view of it , certainly been good . It has enabled the Government to obtain and to keep a vast ...
... elected yesterday , and will have to reject or re - elect to - morrow . In finance the most striking effect in America has , on the first view of it , certainly been good . It has enabled the Government to obtain and to keep a vast ...
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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.