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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... questions would have appeared at once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began ...
... questions would have appeared at once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began ...
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... questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ; it can only decide upon the issues of those topics . And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a ...
... questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ; it can only decide upon the issues of those topics . And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a ...
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... questions of domestic legislation , and the case is not so likely to happen , for on these internal and organic questions the interest and the feeling of the Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be ...
... questions of domestic legislation , and the case is not so likely to happen , for on these internal and organic questions the interest and the feeling of the Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be ...
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