The English ConstitutionA classic study of the British constitution, paying special attention to how Parliament and the monarchy work. The author frequently draws comparisons with the American Constitution, being generally critical of the American system of government. |
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... elected its ruler ; it watches , legislates , seats and unseats ministries , from day to day . Accordingly it is a real electoral body . The parliament of 1857 , which , more than any other parliament of late years , was a par- liament ...
... elected its ruler ; it watches , legislates , seats and unseats ministries , from day to day . Accordingly it is a real electoral body . The parliament of 1857 , which , more than any other parliament of late years , was a par- liament ...
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... elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is almost the only ...
... elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is almost the only ...
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... elected for one fixed period , going out perhaps by fixed instalments , which cannot be accelerated or retarded— you have a President chosen for a fixed period , and im- movable during that period : all the arrangements are for stated ...
... elected for one fixed period , going out perhaps by fixed instalments , which cannot be accelerated or retarded— you have a President chosen for a fixed period , and im- movable during that period : all the arrangements are for stated ...
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... elected to a sinecure is fixed in what is for the moment the most important adminis- trative part in the political world . This defect , though most characteristic of the expectations * of the framers of the constitution and of its ...
... elected to a sinecure is fixed in what is for the moment the most important adminis- trative part in the political world . This defect , though most characteristic of the expectations * of the framers of the constitution and of its ...
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... elected as he was , proving to be what he was ? Such an incident is , however , natural to a presidential government . The President is elected by processes which forbid the election of known men , except at peculiar con- junctures ...
... elected as he was , proving to be what he was ? Such an incident is , however , natural to a presidential government . The President is elected by processes which forbid the election of known men , except at peculiar con- junctures ...
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