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Page xiv
... difficulty may be got over by Congress passing it again with a two - thirds majority . This really is a constitutional remedy ; for it solves the immediate problem , and leaves the constitution un- altered . We cannot say as much for ...
... difficulty may be got over by Congress passing it again with a two - thirds majority . This really is a constitutional remedy ; for it solves the immediate problem , and leaves the constitution un- altered . We cannot say as much for ...
Page xxvi
... difficulties due to physical separation . He would certainly have noted how impossible this would have been if the twen- tieth - century Monarchy , like that of the eighteenth , had taken a hand in the Party game ; or like that of ...
... difficulties due to physical separation . He would certainly have noted how impossible this would have been if the twen- tieth - century Monarchy , like that of the eighteenth , had taken a hand in the Party game ; or like that of ...
Page 15
... difficulty been felt that a semi - connexion has grown up between the legislature and the executive . When the Secretary of the Treasury of the Federal Government wants a tax he consults upon it with the Chairman of the Financial ...
... difficulty been felt that a semi - connexion has grown up between the legislature and the executive . When the Secretary of the Treasury of the Federal Government wants a tax he consults upon it with the Chairman of the Financial ...
Page 19
... difficulty oppresses the press which oppresses the legislature . It can do nothing . It cannot change the administration ; the executive was elected for such and such years , and for such and such years it must last . People wonder that ...
... difficulty oppresses the press which oppresses the legislature . It can do nothing . It cannot change the administration ; the executive was elected for such and such years , and for such and such years it must last . People wonder that ...
Page 26
... difficulty— we used this inherent power . We abolished the Aberdeen cabinet , the ablest we have had , perhaps , since the Reform Act - a cabinet not only adapted , but eminently adapted , for every sort of difficulty save the one it ...
... difficulty— we used this inherent power . We abolished the Aberdeen cabinet , the ablest we have had , perhaps , since the Reform Act - a cabinet not only adapted , but eminently adapted , for every sort of difficulty save the one it ...
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