The English Constitution : and Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1889 - 468 páginas |
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... course mean that statesmen can choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have ...
... course mean that statesmen can choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have ...
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... course lay this down as an unvarying rule as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are not genuine , if they do not embody the opinion of ...
... course lay this down as an unvarying rule as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are not genuine , if they do not embody the opinion of ...
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... course there have been many countries in which certain old families , whether rich or poor , were worshipped by whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage ; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families ...
... course there have been many countries in which certain old families , whether rich or poor , were worshipped by whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage ; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families ...
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... 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 suddenly But in politics we must not trouble ourselves with exceed- ingly exceptional accidents : it ...
... 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 suddenly But in politics we must not trouble ourselves with exceed- ingly exceptional accidents : it ...
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... course , took effect and became immediately operative in the loyal States only , and produced but comparatively little revenue ; and although the range of taxation was soon extended , the whole receipts from all sources by the ...
... course , took effect and became immediately operative in the loyal States only , and produced but comparatively little revenue ; and although the range of taxation was soon extended , the whole receipts from all sources by the ...
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Página 142 - 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 319 - After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Página 168 - Since the Reform Act the House of Lords has become a revising and suspending House. It can alter Bills ; it can reject Bills on which the House of Commons is not yet thoroughly in earnest — upon which the nation is not yet determined. Their veto is a sort of hypothetical veto. They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.
Página 78 - 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 318 - Ou 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. After five years...
Página 106 - No feeling could seem more childish than the enthusiasm of the English at the marriage of the Prince of Wales. They treated as a great political event, what, looked at as a matter of pure business, was very small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be.
Página 466 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
Página 248 - In an ordinary despotism, the powers of a despot are limited by his bodily capacity, and by the calls of pleasure ; he is but one man ; — there are but twelve hours in his day, and he is not disposed to employ more than a small part in dull business : — he keeps the rest for the court, or the harem, or for society.
Página 143 - 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. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. He would find that his having no others would enable him to use these with singular effect.