The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1877 - 474 páginas |
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... body of the 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 ...
... body of the 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 ...
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... bodies are excessively low ; and even such mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority : the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ...
... bodies are excessively low ; and even such mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority : the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ...
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... body " hanging on the verge of government ; " and that House impeached him criminally , in the hope that in that way they might get rid of him civilly . Nothing could be so conclusive against the American Constitution , as a ...
... body " hanging on the verge of government ; " and that House impeached him criminally , in the hope that in that way they might get rid of him civilly . Nothing could be so conclusive against the American Constitution , as a ...
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... intention was that the electoral college should be a deliberative body . But it has ceased to be such , and this was inevitable , for the reason that a single question cannot be referred to a popular INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 67.
... intention was that the electoral college should be a deliberative body . But it has ceased to be such , and this was inevitable , for the reason that a single question cannot be referred to a popular INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 67.
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... body elected by the people can be a genuinely deliberative one is to refer to it a number of different questions of all degrees of im- portance , with freedom to choose in conformity with the results of discussion on any one of them ...
... body elected by the people can be a genuinely deliberative one is to refer to it a number of different questions of all degrees of im- portance , with freedom to choose in conformity with the results of discussion on any one of them ...
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