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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... peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers , young and old , clever and not clever , is much better where it is . The selfish instinct of the mass of peers on this point is a keener and more exact judge of the real ...
... peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers , young and old , clever and not clever , is much better where it is . The selfish instinct of the mass of peers on this point is a keener and more exact judge of the real ...
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... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , " We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , " We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
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... Peers and the Scotch Peers - being nominated by an almost unaltered constituency , and representing the feelings of the majority of that constituency only ( no minority having any voice ) -present an unchangeable Tory ele- ment . But ...
... Peers and the Scotch Peers - being nominated by an almost unaltered constituency , and representing the feelings of the majority of that constituency only ( no minority having any voice ) -present an unchangeable Tory ele- ment . But ...
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