The English ConstitutionH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 стор. 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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... Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed postponed ...
... Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent ... Assemblies has become far more contrasted than it ever was . The full effect of the Reform Act of 1832 was indeed postponed ...
Сторінка xxxv
... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too , that ...
... assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true , too , that ...
Сторінка xxxix
... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is primâ facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
... assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is primâ facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution , this may have been quite right ; the power was then really ...
Сторінка xlvi
... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
... assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt themselves and the country as well as the speaker . I am , too , disposed to deny entirely that there can be any ...
Сторінка xlvii
... assembly . Secondly , it may be objected to the change suggested that Parliament is not always sitting , and that if treaties required its assent , it might have to be sometimes sum- moned out of season , or the treaties would have to ...
... assembly . Secondly , it may be objected to the change suggested that Parliament is not always sitting , and that if treaties required its assent , it might have to be sometimes sum- moned out of season , or the treaties would have to ...
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