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Page xii
Of course I am not arguing that so important an innovation as the Reform Act of
1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great
ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the
...
Of course I am not arguing that so important an innovation as the Reform Act of
1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great
ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the
...
Page xxii
But much argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal
exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of
clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few
light and ...
But much argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal
exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of
clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few
light and ...
Page xxxiii
That system is a very artificial one ; you may make a fine argument for it , but you
cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the
multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would
...
That system is a very artificial one ; you may make a fine argument for it , but you
cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the
multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would
...
Page 20
Human nature despises long arguments which come to nothing - heavy
speeches which precede no motion - abstract disquisitions which leave visible
things where they were . But all men heed great results , and a change of
government is a ...
Human nature despises long arguments which come to nothing - heavy
speeches which precede no motion - abstract disquisitions which leave visible
things where they were . But all men heed great results , and a change of
government is a ...
Page 21
It succeeds in deciding because the debates and the discussions give it the facts
and the arguments . But under a presidential government , a nation has , except
at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its ...
It succeeds in deciding because the debates and the discussions give it the facts
and the arguments . But under a presidential government , a nation has , except
at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Constitution Volume 3 of The Paternoster library |
| Author | Walter Bagehot |
| Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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