The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... popularity was such as has not been seen since the time of Mr. Pitt , and such as may never be seen again . Certainly it will very rarely be seen . A bad speaker is said to have been asked how he got on as a candidate . " Oh , " he ...
... popularity was such as has not been seen since the time of Mr. Pitt , and such as may never be seen again . Certainly it will very rarely be seen . A bad speaker is said to have been asked how he got on as a candidate . " Oh , " he ...
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... 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 rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 27.
... 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 rank INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 27.
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... popular idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire ...
... popular idea only the Emperor's agent ; and even had it been otherwise , M. Rouher , the one great man of Imperialism , could not have been selected as a head of the Government , at a moment of the greatest reaction against the Empire ...
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... popular branch of the legislature- the House of Representatives - as a body " hanging on the verge of government ; " and that House impeached him criminally , in the hope that in that way they might get rid of him civilly . Nothing ...
... popular branch of the legislature- the House of Representatives - as a body " hanging on the verge of government ; " and that House impeached him criminally , in the hope that in that way they might get rid of him civilly . Nothing ...
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... popular discontent at the existing state of things was openly manifest . Everywhere the opinion was expressed that taxation in all possible forms should immediately , and to the largest extent , be made effective and impera- tive ; and ...
... popular discontent at the existing state of things was openly manifest . Everywhere the opinion was expressed that taxation in all possible forms should immediately , and to the largest extent , be made effective and impera- tive ; and ...
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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.