The English ConstitutionGarland Pub., 1978 - 291 páginas THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION provides the most lucid and readable account of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of the nineteenth century constitution, before the advent of universal male suffrage and the rise of party as the overriding force in the British policy. Many of Bagehot's insights remain either true, as a statement of basic principle, or even if no longer strictly accurate, fascinating in their partial applicability today. they convey a sharp sense of how the constitution has radically changed since the Victorian era, and yet paradoxically at a more basic level, remained the same. |
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... arguments for not having a Court , and there are arguments for having a splendid Court ; but there are no arguments for having a mean Court . It is better to spend a million in dazzling when you wish to dazzle , than three - quarters ...
... arguments for not having a Court , and there are arguments for having a splendid Court ; but there are no arguments for having a mean Court . It is better to spend a million in dazzling when you wish to dazzle , than three - quarters ...
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... arguments . He will not state his own best arguments effectively and incisively when he knows that the king would not like to hear them . In a nearly balanced argument the king must always have the better , and in politics many most ...
... arguments . He will not state his own best arguments effectively and incisively when he knows that the king would not like to hear them . In a nearly balanced argument the king must always have the better , and in politics many most ...
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... arguments in behalf of it , I think I may , with the permission of the Committee , assume that 2 + 3 do not make 4 ... arguments suited to this intellectual haze . So far from caution or hesitation in the statement of the argument ...
... arguments in behalf of it , I think I may , with the permission of the Committee , assume that 2 + 3 do not make 4 ... arguments suited to this intellectual haze . So far from caution or hesitation in the statement of the argument ...
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