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Page xlvii
... because it is captious , and what is not said ought as often to be said because
it is material . We should have a manlier and plainer way of dealing with foreign
policy , if Ministers were obliged to explain clearly their foreign contracts before ...
... because it is captious , and what is not said ought as often to be said because
it is material . We should have a manlier and plainer way of dealing with foreign
policy , if Ministers were obliged to explain clearly their foreign contracts before ...
Page xlviii
That it would not be always desirable for Ministers to state clearly the motives
which induced them to agree to foreign compacts . “ Treaties , ” it is said , “ are in
one great respect different from laws , they concern not only the Government
which ...
That it would not be always desirable for Ministers to state clearly the motives
which induced them to agree to foreign compacts . “ Treaties , ” it is said , “ are in
one great respect different from laws , they concern not only the Government
which ...
Page l
The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the Ministry for making treaties , has in
no case a decisive weight in foreign policy , though its debates on them are often
excellent ; and there is a real danger at present in giving it such weight . They are
...
The House of Lords as it cannot turn out the Ministry for making treaties , has in
no case a decisive weight in foreign policy , though its debates on them are often
excellent ; and there is a real danger at present in giving it such weight . They are
...
Page liii
... is possible ; we cannot as yet say whether it will be bad or good . The
circumstances are very peculiar , and that in three ways . First , the trial of a
specially Parliamentary Republic , of a Republic where Parliament appoints the
Minister , is ...
... is possible ; we cannot as yet say whether it will be bad or good . The
circumstances are very peculiar , and that in three ways . First , the trial of a
specially Parliamentary Republic , of a Republic where Parliament appoints the
Minister , is ...
Page lvi
By our Constitution nominally the Queen , but really the Prime Minister , has the
power of dissolving the Assembly . ... The result would be , as I have tried to
explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no
...
By our Constitution nominally the Queen , but really the Prime Minister , has the
power of dissolving the Assembly . ... The result would be , as I have tried to
explain , that the Assembly would be always changing its Ministry , that having no
...
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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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