The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, 1902 - 292 páginas |
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Página xlviii
... despotic one , where discussion is not practised , where it is not understood , where the expressions of different speakers are not accurately weighed , where undue offence may easily be given . " This objection might be easily avoided ...
... despotic one , where discussion is not practised , where it is not understood , where the expressions of different speakers are not accurately weighed , where undue offence may easily be given . " This objection might be easily avoided ...
Página 32
... despotic ; and consequently if a crisis comes upon us soon after he is elected , inevitably we have government by an unknown quantity - the superin- tendence of that crisis by what our great satirist would have called " Statesman X ...
... despotic ; and consequently if a crisis comes upon us soon after he is elected , inevitably we have government by an unknown quantity - the superin- tendence of that crisis by what our great satirist would have called " Statesman X ...
Página 64
... despotic . In such a case cabinet government would go on without friction whether there was a Queen or whether there was no Queen . The best sovereign could then achieve no good , and the worst effect no harm . But the difficulties are ...
... despotic . In such a case cabinet government would go on without friction whether there was a Queen or whether there was no Queen . The best sovereign could then achieve no good , and the worst effect no harm . But the difficulties are ...
Página 77
... despotic . The old Consti- tution of England undoubtedly gave a sort of power to the Crown which our present Constitution does not give . While a majority in parliament was principally purchased by royal patronage , the king was a party ...
... despotic . The old Consti- tution of England undoubtedly gave a sort of power to the Crown which our present Constitution does not give . While a majority in parliament was principally purchased by royal patronage , the king was a party ...
Página 81
... despotic statesman , who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn , is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support . The plans of Charlemagne died with him ; those of Richelieu were mistaken ...
... despotic statesman , who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn , is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support . The plans of Charlemagne died with him ; those of Richelieu were mistaken ...
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Página 74 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 14 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
Página 75 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
Página 10 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página xxiii - But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and for their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude; that a permanent combination of them would make them (now that so many of them have the suffrage) supreme in the country; and that their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignorance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge.
Página 33 - The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Página 13 - The cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.
Página 269 - ... kind of democratic country, because it is more suited to political excellence. The highest classes can rule in it; and the highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. A...
Página 172 - ... not for a moment wish to see a representation of pure mind; it would be contrary to the main thesis of this essay. I maintain that Parliament ought to embody the public opinion of the English nation; and, certainly, that opinion is much more fixed by its property than by its mind. The 'too clever by half people, who live in 'Bohemia', ought to have no more influence in Parliament than they have in England, and they can scarcely have less.
Página 251 - On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.