... 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... The English Constitution - Página 269por Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Rainbow Circle, London - 1911 - 188 páginas
...Government than any kind of democratic country, because it is more suited to political excellence. ... A country of respectful poor, though far less happy...where every man thinks he is as good as every other." Such a doctrine Lord Lansdowne would hardly dare to proclaim to-day. II shall contend, on the contrary,... | |
| United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee - 1945 - 512 páginas
...wishes to be ruled by the less numerous wiser part. * * * A country of respectful poor," he observed, "though far less happy than where there are no poor...nevertheless far more fitted for the best government." As the franchise was repeatedly extended, the British poor became somewhat less like the "miserable... | |
| H. J. Hanham - 1969 - 516 páginas
...experience, an existence by which the judgement is incessandy exercised, and by which it may be incessandy improved. A country of respectful poor, though far...where every man thinks he is as good as every Other. Bagehot, English Constitution, pp. 236-9 18 8. Freeman traces the constitution to Anglo-Saxon origins,... | |
| Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 páginas
...it; and the highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. ... A country of respectful poor, though far less happy...to be respectful, is nevertheless far more fitted to the best government. You can use the best classes of the respectful country; you can only use the... | |
| Jeffrey L. McNairn - 2000 - 492 páginas
...not intelligent, is far more suited to a Cabinet government that any kind of democratic country ... A country of respectful poor, though far less happy...nevertheless far more fitted for the best government. ":'' 130 New Era, Brockville Recorder, 8 Nov. 1849 and Reformator, Mieror, 2 Nov. 1849, 8 Feb. 1850,... | |
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