The English Constitution : and Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1889 - 468 páginas |
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... seem material . There are in this book various expressions which allude to persons who were living and to events which were happening when it first appeared ; and I have carefully preserved these . They will serve to warn the reader ...
... seem material . There are in this book various expressions which allude to persons who were living and to events which were happening when it first appeared ; and I have carefully preserved these . They will serve to warn the reader ...
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... seems right on the face of it . Treaties are quite as important as most laws , and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is ...
... seems right on the face of it . Treaties are quite as important as most laws , and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is ...
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... seems to be the best position in which negoti- ators can be placed , namely , that they should be sure to have to account to considerate and fair persons , but not to have to account to inconsiderate and unfair ones . At present the ...
... seems to be the best position in which negoti- ators can be placed , namely , that they should be sure to have to account to considerate and fair persons , but not to have to account to inconsiderate and unfair ones . At present the ...
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... seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real ...
... seem exceedingly great , but in practice they are not so . English statesmen and English parties have really a great patriotism , they can rarely be persuaded even by their passions or their interest to do anything contrary to the real ...
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... seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole truth as to treaties cannot be spoken out , I answer , that neither can the whole truth as to laws . All im- portant laws affect large " vested interests ...
... seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant as it often is meant , that the whole truth as to treaties cannot be spoken out , I answer , that neither can the whole truth as to laws . All im- portant laws affect large " vested interests ...
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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.