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... EFFECTS OF THAT HISTORY . - CONCLUSION 241 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION1 259 1 This Introduction first appeared in the second edition of 1872. It has been here transferred to the end of the book because it has the nature rather of ...
... EFFECTS OF THAT HISTORY . - CONCLUSION 241 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION1 259 1 This Introduction first appeared in the second edition of 1872. It has been here transferred to the end of the book because it has the nature rather of ...
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... effects , and contrasting it very shortly with its great competitor , which seems likely , unless care be taken , to outstrip it in the progress of the world . That competitor is the Presidential system . The characteristic of it is ...
... effects , and contrasting it very shortly with its great competitor , which seems likely , unless care be taken , to outstrip it in the progress of the world . That competitor is the Presidential system . The characteristic of it is ...
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... effects . In America so much has this 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 ...
... effects . In America so much has this 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 ...
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... effect . The insanity with which he struggled , and in many cases struggled very success- fully , during many years , would probably have burst out much oftener but for the sedative effect of sedulous employment . But how few princes ...
... effect . The insanity with which he struggled , and in many cases struggled very success- fully , during many years , would probably have burst out much oftener but for the sedative effect of sedulous employment . But how few princes ...
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... effect of the consti- tution to the whole constitution , that a great many people will imagine it to be impossible that a nation should thrive or even live with only these two simple elements . But it is upon that possibility that the ...
... effect of the consti- tution to the whole constitution , that a great many people will imagine it to be impossible that a nation should thrive or even live with only these two simple elements . But it is upon that possibility that the ...
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