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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... true in the time of their fathers , and inculcated by those fathers , but now true no longer . Or , if I may say so , an ancient and ever - altering constitu- tion is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the ...
... true in the time of their fathers , and inculcated by those fathers , but now true no longer . Or , if I may say so , an ancient and ever - altering constitu- tion is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the ...
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... true but a most vivid conception , what Mr. Gladstone is like , or what Lord Palmerston is like , runs through society . We have simply no notion what it would be to be left with the visible sovereignty in the hands of an unknown man ...
... true but a most vivid conception , what Mr. Gladstone is like , or what Lord Palmerston is like , runs through society . We have simply no notion what it would be to be left with the visible sovereignty in the hands of an unknown man ...
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... true at such minor and momentary elections must be much more true in a great and constant election of rulers . The House of Commons lives in a state of perpetual potential choice : at any moment it can choose a ruler and dismiss a ruler ...
... true at such minor and momentary elections must be much more true in a great and constant election of rulers . The House of Commons lives in a state of perpetual potential choice : at any moment it can choose a ruler and dismiss a ruler ...
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