The English Constitution, and Other Political EssaysAppleton, 1893 - 468 páginas |
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... seem material . There are in this book various expressions which allude to persons who were living and to events which were happening when it first appeared ; and I have carefully preserved these . They will serve to warn the reader ...
... seem material . There are in this book various expressions which allude to persons who were living and to events which were happening when it first appeared ; and I have carefully preserved these . They will serve to warn the reader ...
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... seems right on the face of it . Treaties are quite as important as most laws , and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is ...
... seems right on the face of it . Treaties are quite as important as most laws , and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is ...
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... seems to be the best position in which negoti- ators can be placed , namely , that they should be sure to have to account to considerate and fair persons , but not to have to account to inconsiderate and unfair ones . At present the ...
... seems to be the best position in which negoti- ators can be placed , namely , that they should be sure to have to account to considerate and fair persons , but not to have to account to inconsiderate and unfair ones . At present the ...
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... seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real ...
... seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real ...
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... seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole truth as to treaties cannot be spoken out , I answer , that neither can the whole truth as to laws . All im- portant laws affect large " vested interests ...
... seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole truth as to treaties cannot be spoken out , I answer , that neither can the whole truth as to laws . All im- portant laws affect large " vested interests ...
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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.