The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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Página 43
... imagine that it goes far . The great bulk of treaties could wait a little without harm , and in the very few cases when urgent haste is necessary , an Autumn zession of Parliament could well be justified , for the occasion must be of ...
... imagine that it goes far . The great bulk of treaties could wait a little without harm , and in the very few cases when urgent haste is necessary , an Autumn zession of Parliament could well be justified , for the occasion must be of ...
Página 57
... imagine that any Parliament would have allowed any executive to keep a surplus of this magnitude . In England , after the French war , the Government of that day , which had brought it to a happy end , which had the glory of Waterloo ...
... imagine that any Parliament would have allowed any executive to keep a surplus of this magnitude . In England , after the French war , the Government of that day , which had brought it to a happy end , which had the glory of Waterloo ...
Página 102
... imagine , and not by the many people we cannot imagine . ” The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two governments , is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other ...
... imagine , and not by the many people we cannot imagine . ” The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two governments , is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other ...
Página 113
... imagine a world in which tais change would not be a great evil . In a country where people did not care for the outward show of life , where the genius of the people was untheatrical , and they exclu- sively regarded the substance of ...
... imagine a world in which tais change would not be a great evil . In a country where people did not care for the outward show of life , where the genius of the people was untheatrical , and they exclu- sively regarded the substance of ...
Página 122
... imagine that men of more eager temperaments will commonly produce them , is to expect grapes from thorns and figs . from thistles . Lastly . Constitutional royalty has the function which I insisted on at length in my last essay , and ...
... imagine that men of more eager temperaments will commonly produce them , is to expect grapes from thorns and figs . from thistles . Lastly . Constitutional royalty has the function which I insisted on at length in my last essay , and ...
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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.