The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1877 - 474 páginas |
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... Constitution , " in its political sense , has very different significations in England and in this country . With us it means a written instru- ment , decreed at a certain time to be the supreme law of the land . Hence , when a book ...
... Constitution , " in its political sense , has very different significations in England and in this country . With us it means a written instru- ment , decreed at a certain time to be the supreme law of the land . Hence , when a book ...
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... Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of Lord Palmer- ston ; and since that time there have been many changes , some of spirit and some of detail . In so ...
... Constitution as it stood in the years 1865 and 1866. Roughly speaking , it de- scribes its working as it was in the time of Lord Palmer- ston ; and since that time there have been many changes , some of spirit and some of detail . In so ...
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... of their representatives an obedience to those opinions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave 6 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... of their representatives an obedience to those opinions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave 6 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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