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Page xxxviii
... raised by questions of foreign policy . On most domestic subjects , either custom or legislation have limited the use of the prerogative . said , " I have never known a peace made Xxxviii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... raised by questions of foreign policy . On most domestic subjects , either custom or legislation have limited the use of the prerogative . said , " I have never known a peace made Xxxviii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
Page xlix
... legislation , and the case is not so likely to happen , for on these internal and organic questions the interest and the feeling of the Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be anxious not to relinquish ...
... legislation , and the case is not so likely to happen , for on these internal and organic questions the interest and the feeling of the Peers is often presumably opposed to that of other classes - they may be anxious not to relinquish ...
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... Legislative was too . No conspicuous example of any other sort of Republic then existed . But now France has given an example - M . Thiers is ( with one exception ) just the chef du pouvoir exécutif that I endeavoured more than once in ...
... Legislative was too . No conspicuous example of any other sort of Republic then existed . But now France has given an example - M . Thiers is ( with one exception ) just the chef du pouvoir exécutif that I endeavoured more than once in ...
Page lvi
... Legislative Assembly , is sure to be able to rely on that assembly . If he wants legislation to aid his policy he can obtain that legislation ; he can carry out that policy . But the American President has no similar security . He is ...
... Legislative Assembly , is sure to be able to rely on that assembly . If he wants legislation to aid his policy he can obtain that legislation ; he can carry out that policy . But the American President has no similar security . He is ...
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... legislative , the executive , and the judicial powers , are quite divided that each is entrusted to a separate person or set of persons — that no one of these can at all interfere with the work of the other . There has been much ...
... legislative , the executive , and the judicial powers , are quite divided that each is entrusted to a separate person or set of persons — that no one of these can at all interfere with the work of the other . There has been much ...
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