The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1877 - 474 páginas |
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... Commons send it up again and again , infer that the nation is determined . But no important practical question in real life can be uniformly settled by a fixed and formal rule in this ... House of Lords ought , 22 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... Commons send it up again and again , infer that the nation is determined . But no important practical question in real life can be uniformly settled by a fixed and formal rule in this ... House of Lords ought , 22 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... Commons ; they think , if they do not say , " The House of Lords is our enemy and that of all Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men are born there which we cannot help , but we will not vaccinate ' it ...
... Commons ; they think , if they do not say , " The House of Lords is our enemy and that of all Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men are born there which we cannot help , but we will not vaccinate ' it ...
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