The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it . On the other side , many , probably most of the intelligent Liberals , were in conster- nation at the Bill ; they had been in the habit for years of proposing Reform Bills ...
... oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it . On the other side , many , probably most of the intelligent Liberals , were in conster- nation at the Bill ; they had been in the habit for years of proposing Reform Bills ...
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... opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be effectual in that way ... oppose the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 29.
... opposition or a contrast between the Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be effectual in that way ... oppose the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 29.
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... oppose the Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of ... opposition of the Commons is the only thing which can endanger the Lords , or which will make an individual peer ...
... oppose the Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of ... opposition of the Commons is the only thing which can endanger the Lords , or which will make an individual peer ...
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... opposition to whatever might occur ; if a good Government were thus placed , I should think it decidedly better that the agreements of the Ad- ministration with foreign powers should be submitted to Parliament . They would then receive ...
... opposition to whatever might occur ; if a good Government were thus placed , I should think it decidedly better that the agreements of the Ad- ministration with foreign powers should be submitted to Parliament . They would then receive ...
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... opposition to the plain interest of the nation ; if it did , the nation being ( as are all nations capable of Parliamentary institutions ) constantly attentive to public affairs , would inflict on them the maximum Par- liamentary ...
... opposition to the plain interest of the nation ; if it did , the nation being ( as are all nations capable of Parliamentary institutions ) constantly attentive to public affairs , would inflict on them the maximum Par- liamentary ...
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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.