The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1877 - 474 páginas |
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... theory was omnipotent , was the only class financially ill - treated . Throughout the history of our former Parliaments the constituency could no more have originated the policy which those Parliaments selected than they could have made ...
... theory was omnipotent , was the only class financially ill - treated . Throughout the history of our former Parliaments the constituency could no more have originated the policy which those Parliaments selected than they could have made ...
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... theory of the English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were ...
... theory of the English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were ...
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... theory these defects in our present practice would 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 ...
... theory these defects in our present practice would 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 ...
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... theory . It was natural - perhaps inevitable - that such an under- growth of irrelevant ideas should gather round the British Constitution . Language is the tradition of nations ; each generation describes what it sees , but it uses ...
... theory . It was natural - perhaps inevitable - that such an under- growth of irrelevant ideas should gather round the British Constitution . Language is the tradition of nations ; each generation describes what it sees , but it uses ...
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... theory , are alleged to be not only the outward form , but the inner moving essence , the vitality of the constitution . A great theory , called the theory of " Checks and Balances , " pervades an immense part of political literature ...
... theory , are alleged to be not only the outward form , but the inner moving essence , the vitality of the constitution . A great theory , called the theory of " Checks and Balances , " pervades an immense part of political literature ...
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