The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... passed . In Lord Palmerston's time Sir George Grey said that the disestablishment of the Irish Church would be an " act of Revolution : " it has now been disestablished by great majorities , with Sir George Grey himself assenting . A ...
... passed . In Lord Palmerston's time Sir George Grey said that the disestablishment of the Irish Church would be an " act of Revolution : " it has now been disestablished by great majorities , with Sir George Grey himself assenting . A ...
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... passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be expected of it . But the debates on the Reform ... passed ? " The answer I got was , " What stuff you talk ! How can it be a Radical Reform Bill ? Why Bright opposes ...
... passing of an Act contain much valuable instruction as to what may be expected of it . But the debates on the Reform ... passed ? " The answer I got was , " What stuff you talk ! How can it be a Radical Reform Bill ? Why Bright opposes ...
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... passed to the middle class . The two Houses then became distinct , but then they ceased to be co - equal . The Duke of Welling- ton , in a most remarkable paper , has explained what pains he took to induce the Lords to submit to ...
... passed to the middle class . The two Houses then became distinct , but then they ceased to be co - equal . The Duke of Welling- ton , in a most remarkable paper , has explained what pains he took to induce the Lords to submit to ...
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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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... passed even once by a large 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 ...
... passed even once by a large 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 ...
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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.