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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... function of the House of Commons is what I may call an expressive function . It is its office to ex- press the mind of the English people on all matters which come before it . Whether it does so well or ill I shall discuss presently ...
... function of the House of Commons is what I may call an expressive function . It is its office to ex- press the mind of the English people on all matters which come before it . Whether it does so well or ill I shall discuss presently ...
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... function , as I just now called it : the function which belongs to it , or to members of it , to bring before the nation the ideas , grievances , and wishes of special classes . This must not be confounded with what I have called its ...
... function , as I just now called it : the function which belongs to it , or to members of it , to bring before the nation the ideas , grievances , and wishes of special classes . This must not be confounded with what I have called its ...
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... function and the animating function of a Parliamentary minister likely to be per- fectly exercised by one and the same man . Impelling power and restraining wisdom are as opposite as any two things , and are rarely found together . And ...
... function and the animating function of a Parliamentary minister likely to be per- fectly exercised by one and the same man . Impelling power and restraining wisdom are as opposite as any two things , and are rarely found together . And ...
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