The English ConstitutionH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas A classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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Página xxvii
... Lords and Commons divides that resisting power ; as I have explained , the House of Commons still mainly represents the plutocracy , the Lords represent the aristocracy . The main interest of both these classes is now identical , which ...
... Lords and Commons divides that resisting power ; as I have explained , the House of Commons still mainly represents the plutocracy , the Lords represent the aristocracy . The main interest of both these classes is now identical , which ...
Página xxxi
... Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they would have if the House of Lords were abolished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in the Commons ...
... Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they would have if the House of Lords were abolished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in the Commons ...
Página xxxiii
... Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be effectual in that way , life peerages must be very numerous . Now the House of Lords will never consent to a very numerous life peerage without a storm ; they must be in terror to do ...
... Houses of Lords and Commons is to be remedied . To be effectual in that way , life peerages must be very numerous . Now the House of Lords will never consent to a very numerous life peerage without a storm ; they must be in terror to do ...
Página xxxiv
... House of Lords is our enemy and that of all Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men ... Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords ...
... House of Lords is our enemy and that of all Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men ... Commons as stupid peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords ...
Página xxxv
Walter Bagehot. average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence ... Commons . But it is not unnatural that persons of high rank and of great ability should be unwilling to bend to ...
Walter Bagehot. average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence ... Commons . But it is not unnatural that persons of high rank and of great ability should be unwilling to bend to ...
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