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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... important practical question in real life can be uniformly settled by a fixed and formal rule in this way . This rule would prove that the Lords might have rejected the Reform Act of 1832. Whenever the nation was both excited and ...
... important practical question in real life can be uniformly settled by a fixed and formal rule in this way . This rule would prove that the Lords might have rejected the Reform Act of 1832. Whenever the nation was both excited and ...
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... important peers were most important . It could not be so . The qualities which fit a man for marked eminence , in a deliberative assembly , are not hereditary , and are not coupled with great estates . In the nation , in the provinces ...
... important peers were most important . It could not be so . The qualities which fit a man for marked eminence , in a deliberative assembly , are not hereditary , and are not coupled with great estates . In the nation , in the provinces ...
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... important as the executive management of the whole state , or the political education given by Parliament to the whole nation . There are , I allow , seasons when legislation is more im- portant than either of these . The nation may be ...
... important as the executive management of the whole state , or the political education given by Parliament to the whole nation . There are , I allow , seasons when legislation is more im- portant than either of these . The nation may be ...
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