The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, 1902 - 292 páginas |
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Página ix
... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
Página xii
... soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the ...
... soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the ...
Página xxxvii
... soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
... soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
Página liv
... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impossible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impossible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
Página lvi
... soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would ...
... soon become unmanageable . The result would be , as I have tried to explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would ...
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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.