The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... poraneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living govern- ments AMERICAN PREFACE iii I INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION.
... poraneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living govern- ments AMERICAN PREFACE iii I INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION.
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Walter Bagehot. compares it with the most important other living govern- ments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of illustration are altered probably in a different way . This ...
Walter Bagehot. compares it with the most important other living govern- ments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of illustration are altered probably in a different way . This ...
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... important an inno- vation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the great evident ...
... important an inno- vation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the great evident ...
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... important as the selection of these questions . It is for our principal statesmen to lead the public , and not to let the public lead them . No doubt when statesmen live by public favour , as ours do , this is a hard saying , and it ...
... important as the selection of these questions . It is for our principal statesmen to lead the public , and not to let the public lead them . No doubt when statesmen live by public favour , as ours do , this is a hard saying , and it ...
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... important truth . And so he will both guide and benefit the nation . But if , especially at a time when great ignorance has an unusual power in public affairs , he chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is ...
... important truth . And so he will both guide and benefit the nation . But if , especially at a time when great ignorance has an unusual power in public affairs , he chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is ...
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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.