The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... once started into life : the pre - 32 all at once died out . Most of the new politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 , they entered it after 1856 . Such an enormous ...
... once started into life : the pre - 32 all at once died out . Most of the new politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 , they entered it after 1856 . Such an enormous ...
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... once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the ...
... once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the ...
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... once the 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 ...
... once the 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 ...
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... are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of mechanical test : they say the House of Lords should be at liberty to reject a measure passed by the Commons once or more , and then if the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 21.
... are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of mechanical test : they say the House of Lords should be at liberty to reject a measure passed by the Commons once or more , and then if the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 21.
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... once only , or whether it has come up several times , is one important fact in judging whether the nation is determined to have that measure enacted ; it is an indication , but it is only one of the indications . There are others ...
... once only , or whether it has come up several times , is one important fact in judging whether the nation is determined to have that measure enacted ; it is an indication , but it is only one of the indications . There are others ...
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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.