The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its electioneering value is impaired . Besides it is in the nature of the curious influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men ...
... force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its electioneering value is impaired . Besides it is in the nature of the curious influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men ...
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... forces , whether land or sea , leave us defenceless against foreign nations . Why do we not fear that she would do this , or any approach to it ? 66 Because there are two checks - one ancient and coarse , the other modern and delicate ...
... forces , whether land or sea , leave us defenceless against foreign nations . Why do we not fear that she would do this , or any approach to it ? 66 Because there are two checks - one ancient and coarse , the other modern and delicate ...
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... force of the greatest inquiring machine and the greatest discussing machine which the world has ever known would have been directed to this subject . In a year or two the American public would have had it forced upon them in every form ...
... force of the greatest inquiring machine and the greatest discussing machine which the world has ever known would have been directed to this subject . In a year or two the American public would have had it forced upon them in every form ...
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... force to the foregoing criticisms of the working of the United States Constitution . Mr. Bagehot , in discussing the recent elec- tion in his journal , has remarked upon our defective method of President - making to the following effect ...
... force to the foregoing criticisms of the working of the United States Constitution . Mr. Bagehot , in discussing the recent elec- tion in his journal , has remarked upon our defective method of President - making to the following effect ...
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... force - which attract its motive power . The efficient parts only employ that power . The comely parts of a government have need , for they are those upon which its vital strength depends . They may not do anything definite that a ...
... force - which attract its motive power . The efficient parts only employ that power . The comely parts of a government have need , for they are those upon which its vital strength depends . They may not do anything definite that a ...
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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.