The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... ideas , but by facts ; not by things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point . upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them ...
... ideas , but by facts ; not by things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point . upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them ...
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... ideas ; or rather - for the conceptions of such people are more personal than abstract - between two opposing parties , each professing a creed of such ideas . But they could do no more . Their own notions , if they had been cross ...
... ideas ; or rather - for the conceptions of such people are more personal than abstract - between two opposing parties , each professing a creed of such ideas . But they could do no more . Their own notions , if they had been cross ...
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... idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very ...
... idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea - a very ...
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... idea to the working - classes if refused . But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes , as such and for their own objects , is an evil of the first magnitude ; that a permanent combination ...
... idea to the working - classes if refused . But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes , as such and for their own objects , is an evil of the first magnitude ; that a permanent combination ...
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... idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the ...
... idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire . Of the ...
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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.