The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... majority could only be described as pro - Gladstone . The remains , too , of the old electoral organization were exceedingly powerful ; the old voters voted as they had been told , and the new voters mostly voted with them . In ...
... majority could only be described as pro - Gladstone . The remains , too , of the old electoral organization were exceedingly powerful ; the old voters voted as they had been told , and the new voters mostly voted with them . In ...
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... majority of the other part were the richer gentry - men in most respects like the Lords , and sympathising with the Lords . Under the Constitution as it then was the two Houses were not in their essence distinct ; they were in their ...
... majority of the other part were the richer gentry - men in most respects like the Lords , and sympathising with the Lords . Under the Constitution as it then was the two Houses were not in their essence distinct ; they were in their ...
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... majority of them for the present may fairly be assumed to be likely to continue permanently to convince them . One sort might easily fall into a temporary and erroneous fanaticism , but all sorts simultaneously are very unlikely to do ...
... majority of them for the present may fairly be assumed to be likely to continue permanently to convince them . One sort might easily fall into a temporary and erroneous fanaticism , but all sorts simultaneously are very unlikely to do ...
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... majority of the House of Commons . I would not of course lay this down as an unvarying rule : as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are ...
... majority of the House of Commons . I would not of course lay this down as an unvarying rule : as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are ...
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... majority of the constituencies now consist of the uneducated poor . This cannot be for the advantage of anyone . In doing so besides the aristocracy forfeit their natural position - that by which they would gain most power , and in ...
... majority of the constituencies now consist of the uneducated poor . This cannot be for the advantage of anyone . In doing so besides the aristocracy forfeit their natural position - that by which they would gain most power , and in ...
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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.