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Page v
... possible to theorize about politics in many different ways and from many different points of view . Constitutions may be traced historically , described legally , com- pared critically . The writer may be more con- cerned to tell us ...
... possible to theorize about politics in many different ways and from many different points of view . Constitutions may be traced historically , described legally , com- pared critically . The writer may be more con- cerned to tell us ...
Page xxi
... possible . Indeed he hardly tried . Though the many uncom- plimentary things he says about our national in- capacities suffice to show that there is a problem to be solved , he made little effort to solve it . He held ( as we know ) ...
... possible . Indeed he hardly tried . Though the many uncom- plimentary things he says about our national in- capacities suffice to show that there is a problem to be solved , he made little effort to solve it . He held ( as we know ) ...
Page xxii
... too numerous or too profound , the success- ful working of British institutions may be difficult or impossible . It may indeed be least possible where the arts of Parliamentary persuasion and the dexterities of xxii INTRODUCTION.
... too numerous or too profound , the success- ful working of British institutions may be difficult or impossible . It may indeed be least possible where the arts of Parliamentary persuasion and the dexterities of xxii INTRODUCTION.
Page 22
... possible , is the best selecter of executives that can be imagined . It is full of political activity ; it is close to political life ; 1 it feels the responsibility of affairs which are brought as 22 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
... possible , is the best selecter of executives that can be imagined . It is full of political activity ; it is close to political life ; 1 it feels the responsibility of affairs which are brought as 22 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
Page 24
... possible . The passions of its members are its rulers ; the law - making faculty , the most compre- hensive of the imperial faculties , is its instrument ; it will take the administration if it can take it . Tried by their own aims ...
... possible . The passions of its members are its rulers ; the law - making faculty , the most compre- hensive of the imperial faculties , is its instrument ; it will take the administration if it can take it . Tried by their own aims ...
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