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Page ix
... tion . The President's powers are defined by the Constitution , and for their exercise ( within the law ) he is responsible to no man . The Prime Minister and his Cabinet , on the other hand , are restrained by no written constitution ...
... tion . The President's powers are defined by the Constitution , and for their exercise ( within the law ) he is responsible to no man . The Prime Minister and his Cabinet , on the other hand , are restrained by no written constitution ...
Page xiii
... tion . He had insistently inquired how we — a self- governing community - did in fact govern ourselves ; and to all seeming he had found the answer . We govern ourselves through a Cabinet , selected from the legislature , presided over ...
... tion . He had insistently inquired how we — a self- governing community - did in fact govern ourselves ; and to all seeming he had found the answer . We govern ourselves through a Cabinet , selected from the legislature , presided over ...
Page xvii
... tion . Let us then turn to politics proper , and consider his views on the Monarchy regarded as representing the ' dignified ' side of our institutions . They are easily summarized . He thought it a national necessity , but a necessity ...
... tion . Let us then turn to politics proper , and consider his views on the Monarchy regarded as representing the ' dignified ' side of our institutions . They are easily summarized . He thought it a national necessity , but a necessity ...
Page xxii
... tion of British institutions in strange lands might remember with advantage . Such an experiment can hardly be without its dangers . Constitutions are easily copied , temperaments are not ; and if it should happen that the borrowed ...
... tion of British institutions in strange lands might remember with advantage . Such an experiment can hardly be without its dangers . Constitutions are easily copied , temperaments are not ; and if it should happen that the borrowed ...
Page xxiii
... tion would in fact be a revolution disguised under a constitutional procedure . Does not this illustration , like the first , show how delicate is the political machinery whose smooth working we usually take as a matter of course ? It ...
... tion would in fact be a revolution disguised under a constitutional procedure . Does not this illustration , like the first , show how delicate is the political machinery whose smooth working we usually take as a matter of course ? It ...
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