The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 292 páginas |
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... Lords and Commons divides that resisting power ; as I have ex- plained , the House of Commons still mainly represents the plutocracy , the Lords represent the aristocracy . The main interest of both these classes is now identical ...
... Lords and Commons divides that resisting power ; as I have ex- plained , the House of Commons still mainly represents the plutocracy , the Lords represent the aristocracy . The main interest of both these classes is now identical ...
Página xxxiii
... 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 xxxv
... 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 xxxvi
... Lords , and so make them better able to oppose the 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 ...
... Lords , and so make them better able to oppose the 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 ...
Página xxxvii
Walter Bagehot. quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say ...
Walter Bagehot. quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say ...
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