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Page xxxvii
Walter Bagehot. quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say ...
Walter Bagehot. quer , the House of Commons , where the standard of intelligence is not much above the common English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say ...
Page xl
... House of Parliament which has much to say to this remedy , such as it is ; the House of Commons only can remove a Minister by a vote of censure . Most of the Ministries for thirty years have never possessed the confidence of the Lords ...
... House of Parliament which has much to say to this remedy , such as it is ; the House of Commons only can remove a Minister by a vote of censure . Most of the Ministries for thirty years have never possessed the confidence of the Lords ...
Page xli
... House of Commons , and not for the House of Lords - to say whether they have or have not forfeited their place by the treaty they have made . I think every one must admit that this is not an ar- rangement which seems right on the face ...
... House of Commons , and not for the House of Lords - to say whether they have or have not forfeited their place by the treaty they have made . I think every one must admit that this is not an ar- rangement which seems right on the face ...
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... Houses of Parliament to foreign treaties before they were valid we should much augment the power of the House of Lords . And this is also , I think , a just objection as far as it goes . The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the ...
... Houses of Parliament to foreign treaties before they were valid we should much augment the power of the House of Lords . And this is also , I think , a just objection as far as it goes . The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the ...
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... House of Lords must deal with the assent to treaties as they do with the assent to laws ; they must defer to the voice of the country and the authority of the Commons even in cases where their own judgment might guide them otherwise ...
... House of Lords must deal with the assent to treaties as they do with the assent to laws ; they must defer to the voice of the country and the authority of the Commons even in cases where their own judgment might guide them otherwise ...
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