The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... look upon all other governments with a kind of bigoted contempt . Our intense politics , chiefly occupied with selfish and sordid interests , and bitter personal rival- ries , tend to exclude from this sphere of thought every- thing ...
... look upon all other governments with a kind of bigoted contempt . Our intense politics , chiefly occupied with selfish and sordid interests , and bitter personal rival- ries , tend to exclude from this sphere of thought every- thing ...
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... looks to the discussions in Parliament to enlighten it as to the effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party . could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences ...
... looks to the discussions in Parliament to enlighten it as to the effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party . could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences ...
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... looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to ...
... looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided and their collective action may be bitterly hostile to ...
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... make a fine argument fra ba 1 argument , an avid ltitude . The thing looks like pular passion it will not pulsory equal division of es might be provided to obstruct and prevent these great aggregations of pro perty IN LIS.
... make a fine argument fra ba 1 argument , an avid ltitude . The thing looks like pular passion it will not pulsory equal division of es might be provided to obstruct and prevent these great aggregations of pro perty IN LIS.
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... look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them ; I cannot think of them as a mode in which a permanent opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be ...
... look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them ; I cannot think of them as a mode in which a permanent opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be ...
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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.