The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... reason is one which has not been much urged . As a theoretical writer I can venture to say , what no elected member of Parliament , Conservative or Liberal , can ven- ture to say , that I am exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude ...
... reason is one which has not been much urged . As a theoretical writer I can venture to say , what no elected member of Parliament , Conservative or Liberal , can ven- ture to say , that I am exceedingly afraid of the ignorant multitude ...
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... reasons for making them , I need not repeat those reasons here , I need only say how the 28 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... reasons for making them , I need not repeat those reasons here , I need only say how the 28 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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Walter Bagehot. those reasons here , I need only say how the notion stands in my judgment now . I cannot look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them ; I cannot think of them as a mode in which ...
Walter Bagehot. those reasons here , I need only say how the notion stands in my judgment now . I cannot look on life peerages in the way in which some of their strongest advocates regard them ; I cannot think of them as a mode in which ...
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... reasons , it was then necessary that , on a multitude of points , the Crown should have much more power than is amply sufficient for it at present . But now the real power is not in the Sovereign , it is in the Prime Minis- ter and in ...
... reasons , it was then necessary that , on a multitude of points , the Crown should have much more power than is amply sufficient for it at present . But now the real power is not in the Sovereign , it is in the Prime Minis- ter and in ...
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... reasons for the treaty plainly stated , and also the reasons against it . At present , as we have seen , the discussion is unreal . The thing is done and cannot be altered ; and what is said often ought not to be said be- cause it is ...
... reasons for the treaty plainly stated , and also the reasons against it . At present , as we have seen , the discussion is unreal . The thing is done and cannot be altered ; and what is said often ought not to be said be- cause it is ...
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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.