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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Walter Bagehot. essential to a true monarchy , are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people . These semi - filial feelings in government are inherited just as the true filial feelings in common life . You ...
Walter Bagehot. essential to a true monarchy , are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people . These semi - filial feelings in government are inherited just as the true filial feelings in common life . You ...
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... legislature has many com- mittees , but this is its greatest . It chooses for this , its main committee , the men in whom it has most confidence . It does not , it is true , choose them directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing ...
... legislature has many com- mittees , but this is its greatest . It chooses for this , its main committee , the men in whom it has most confidence . It does not , it is true , choose them directly ; but it is nearly omnipotent in choosing ...
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Walter Bagehot. legislature to head that party , and consequently to rule the nation . We have in England an elective ... legislature chosen , in name , to make laws , in fact finds its principal business in making and in keeping an ...
Walter Bagehot. legislature to head that party , and consequently to rule the nation . We have in England an elective ... legislature chosen , in name , to make laws , in fact finds its principal business in making and in keeping an ...
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... legislature - are accidents unessential to its definition historical incidents separable from its nature . Its charac- teristic is that it should be chosen by the legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the legislature ...
... legislature - are accidents unessential to its definition historical incidents separable from its nature . Its charac- teristic is that it should be chosen by the legislature out of persons agreeable to and trusted by the legislature ...
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... legislature has the power of dissolving the predominant part of that legislature - that which at a crisis is the supreme legis- lature . The English system , therefore , is not an absorp- tion of the executive power by the legislative ...
... legislature has the power of dissolving the predominant part of that legislature - that which at a crisis is the supreme legis- lature . The English system , therefore , is not an absorp- tion of the executive power by the legislative ...
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