The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1877 - 474 páginas |
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... peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords plainly is , will be ... peer cease to be a peer . The greater you make the sense of the Lords , the more they will see that their plain ...
... peers . But this I deny . Most clever men who are in such a good place as the House of Lords plainly is , will be ... peer cease to be a peer . The greater you make the sense of the Lords , the more they will see that their plain ...
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... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , " We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , " We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
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... peer ; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a university ; " she could dismiss most of the civil servants ; she could pardon all offenders . In a word , the Queen could by prerogative upset all the action of civil govern ...
... peer ; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a university ; " she could dismiss most of the civil servants ; she could pardon all offenders . In a word , the Queen could by prerogative upset all the action of civil govern ...
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... Peers might be risked without real fear of serious harm . Our present practice , as has been ex- plained , only works because of the good sense of those by whom it is worked , and the new practice would have to rely on a similar good ...
... Peers might be risked without real fear of serious harm . Our present practice , as has been ex- plained , only works because of the good sense of those by whom it is worked , and the new practice would have to rely on a similar good ...
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... Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be anxious not to relinquish the very power which other classes are anxious to acquire ; but in foreign policy there is no similar antagonism of interest - a peer and ...
... Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be anxious not to relinquish the very power which other classes are anxious to acquire ; but in foreign policy there is no similar antagonism of interest - a peer and ...
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