The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 292 páginas |
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... election , under the only conditions in which secondary election is preferable to primary . Gene- rally speaking , in an electioneering country ( I mean in a country full of political life , and used to the manipulation of popular ...
... election , under the only conditions in which secondary election is preferable to primary . Gene- rally speaking , in an electioneering country ( I mean in a country full of political life , and used to the manipulation of popular ...
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... election , being elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is ...
... election , being elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is ...
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... election of Mr. Lincoln is liable to no such objection . It was a characteristic instance of the natural working of such a government upon a great occasion . And what was that working ? It may be DAMN GOOD summed up — it was government ...
... election of Mr. Lincoln is liable to no such objection . It was a characteristic instance of the natural working of such a government upon a great occasion . And what was that working ? It may be DAMN GOOD summed up — it was government ...
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... election of known men , except at peculiar conjunctures , and in moments when public opinion is excited and despotic ; and consequently if a crisis comes upon us soon after he is elected , inevitably we have government by an unknown ...
... election of known men , except at peculiar conjunctures , and in moments when public opinion is excited and despotic ; and consequently if a crisis comes upon us soon after he is elected , inevitably we have government by an unknown ...
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... present vote for the candidate they prefer ; then let the Speaker count the votes , and the candidate with the greatest number be premier . This mode of election would throw the whole choice into 62 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
... present vote for the candidate they prefer ; then let the Speaker count the votes , and the candidate with the greatest number be premier . This mode of election would throw the whole choice into 62 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION .
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