The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Том 4Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... representatives an obedience to those opin- ions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave those representatives much license ...
... representatives an obedience to those opin- ions ; that they were in fact guided in their judgment by the better educated classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave those representatives much license ...
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... representative as well as the opin- ion of the constituency , no one would wish to have any attention paid to them . But if the opinion of the nation be strong and be universal , if it be really believed by members of Parliament as well ...
... representative as well as the opin- ion of the constituency , no one would wish to have any attention paid to them . But if the opinion of the nation be strong and be universal , if it be really believed by members of Parliament as well ...
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... representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is prima facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution this may have been quite right : the power was ...
... representative assemblies to every word of the law , and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty , is prima facie ludicrous . In the older forms of the English Constitution this may have been quite right : the power was ...
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... Representatives 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 ...
... Representatives 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 ...
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... Representatives by another . The independence of the legislative and executive powers is the specific quality of presidential govern- ment , just as their fusion and combination is the pre- cise principle of cabinet government . First ...
... Representatives by another . The independence of the legislative and executive powers is the specific quality of presidential govern- ment , just as their fusion and combination is the pre- cise principle of cabinet government . First ...
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Стр. 111 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Стр. 450 - It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association ; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully excluded.
Стр. 112 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Стр. 62 - It is said that at the end of the Cabinet which agreed to propose a fixed duty on corn, Lord Melbourne put his back to the door and said, 'Now is it to lower the price of corn or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Стр. 82 - ... small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be.
Стр. 59 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Стр. 434 - The effect of the evidence derived from comparative jurisprudence is to establish that view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the Patriarchal Theory.
Стр. 450 - Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes...
Стр. 582 - Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense which has just been given to it, we may say that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable himself and to be more respected by those around him. To produce new things " serviceable to man's life and conducive to man's estate...
Стр. 576 - ... sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought "; it enables, them to do the good things they see to be good, as well as to see that they are good. And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality. A strongly idiosyncratic mind, violently disposed to extremes of opinion, is soon weeded out of political life, and a bodiless thinker, an ineffectual scholar, cannot even live there for a day. A vigorous moderateness in mind and body is the rule of a polity which...