The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... present edition , and have not before appeared in this country , will be read with avidity , as they not only serve to throw additional light upon the modern politics of England , but give us an interesting insight into the intellectual ...
... present edition , and have not before appeared in this country , will be read with avidity , as they not only serve to throw additional light upon the modern politics of England , but give us an interesting insight into the intellectual ...
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... present time , it would have been in many points untrue ; and if I had tried to change the sketch of seven years since into a sketch of the present time , I should probably have blurred the picture and have given something equally ...
... present time , it would have been in many points untrue ; and if I had tried to change the sketch of seven years since into a sketch of the present time , I should probably have blurred the picture and have given something equally ...
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... present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . If the first work of the ...
... present law which makes them uncomfortable - that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . If the first work of the ...
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... present battle , but many after battles , is a heavy curse to men and nations . In one minor respect , indeed , I think we may see with distinctness the effect of the Reform Bill of 1867 18 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... present battle , but many after battles , is a heavy curse to men and nations . In one minor respect , indeed , I think we may see with distinctness the effect of the Reform Bill of 1867 18 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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... present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ancient descent or of great hereditary estate ; they are men mostly of substantial means , but they are mostly , too , connected ...
... present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ancient descent or of great hereditary estate ; they are men mostly of substantial means , but they are mostly , too , connected ...
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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.