The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, 1902 - 292 páginas |
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Página vii
... things which never were con- temporaneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND ...
... things which never were con- temporaneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND ...
Página xiii
... things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in these indisputable respects ...
... things palpable , but by things impalpable . Not to put too fine a point upon it , they were influenced by rank and wealth . No doubt the better sort of them believed that those who were superior to them in these indisputable respects ...
Página xxxiii
... thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided to obstruct and prevent these great aggrega- tions ...
... thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon , stringent clauses might be provided to obstruct and prevent these great aggrega- tions ...
Página xxxiv
... things certainly are less likely than a violent tempest like this to destroy large and hereditary estates . But then , too , few things are less likely than an outbreak to destroy the House of Lords- my point is , that a catastrophe ...
... things certainly are less likely than a violent tempest like this to destroy large and hereditary estates . But then , too , few things are less likely than an outbreak to destroy the House of Lords- my point is , that a catastrophe ...
Página xxxvi
... thing which can endanger the Lords , or which will make an individual peer cease to be a peer . The greater you make the sense of the Lords , the more they will see that their plain interest is to make friends of the plutocracy , and to ...
... thing which can endanger the Lords , or which will make an individual peer cease to be a peer . The greater you make the sense of the Lords , the more they will see that their plain interest is to make friends of the plutocracy , and to ...
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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.