The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, 1902 - 292 páginas |
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Página xxxi
... peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its ...
... peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that its ...
Página xxxii
... peers , and were still more largely supposed to be held by them , were swept away with a tumult of delight ; and in another similar time of great excitement , the Lords themselves , if they deserve it , might pass away . The democratic ...
... peers , and were still more largely supposed to be held by them , were swept away with a tumult of delight ; and in another similar time of great excitement , the Lords themselves , if they deserve it , might pass away . The democratic ...
Página xxxiii
... peers might do better in the Commons , the old 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 old 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 ...
Página xxxiv
... last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for making them , xxxiv INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... last proposal to make life peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for making them , xxxiv INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
Página xxxv
... peers , probably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely . Of course one may fancy it to be otherwise ; we may conceive of a political storm just going to a life peerage limit , and then stopping ...
... peers , probably it will sweep away the hereditary principle in the Upper Chamber entirely . Of course one may fancy it to be otherwise ; we may conceive of a political storm just going to a life peerage limit , and then stopping ...
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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.