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... REQUISITES OF CABINET GOVERNMENT , AND THE PECULIAR FORM WHICH THEY HAVE ASSUMED IN ENGLAND 254 No. IX . ITS HISTORY , AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT HISTORY . - CON- CLUSION 272 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE is a great vi CONTENTS .
... REQUISITES OF CABINET GOVERNMENT , AND THE PECULIAR FORM WHICH THEY HAVE ASSUMED IN ENGLAND 254 No. IX . ITS HISTORY , AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT HISTORY . - CON- CLUSION 272 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . THERE is a great vi CONTENTS .
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... effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even enough to explain to them that they have ...
... effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people enfranchised under it do not yet know their own power ; a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even enough to explain to them that they have ...
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... been settled by any other change , or even without any change , the instant effect of the settlement would still have been immense b New questions would have appeared at once . A political INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xi.
... been settled by any other change , or even without any change , the instant effect of the settlement would still have been immense b New questions would have appeared at once . A political INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xi.
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... 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 great evident change since 1865 is certainly not strictly due to it ; probably is not even in a ...
... 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 great evident change since 1865 is certainly not strictly due to it ; probably is not even in a ...
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... effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party , could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own ...
... effect of Bills . But in this case neither party , as a party , could speak out . Many , perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own ...
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