 | 1917 - 434 pages
...tempted to endorse the shallow sophistry by which the Abbe' Sieyes commended the unicameral system : ' If a Second Chamber dissents from the First it is mischievous ; ' if it agrees with it, it is superfluous.' Thus characteristically, with an epigrammatic dilemma, did the prince... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...enough to quote the well-known epigram of Sieves on the subject of Second Chambers. " If," it runs, " a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." It has perhaps escaped notice that this saying is a conscious or unconscious parody of that reply of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...enough to quote the well-known epigram of Sieves on the subject of Second Chambers. ' If,' it runs, ' a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous.' It has perhaps escaped notice that this saying is a conscious or unconscious parody of that reply of... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...enough to quote the well-known epigram of SieVes on the sub-ject of Second Chambers. " If," it runs, " a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." It has perhaps escaped notice that this saying is a conscious or unconscious parody of that reply of... | |
 | Quotations - 1890 - 270 pages
...quote the well-known epigram 01 the Abbe Sieyes on the subject of Second Chambers. " If "it runs, " a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." It has, perhaps, escaped notice that this saying is a conscious or unconscious parody of that reply... | |
 | William Charteris Macpherson - Nobility - 1893 - 440 pages
...the First. "'If,' wrote Sir Henry Maine, 'it [the Radical argument] runs, a Second Chamber differs from the First it is mischievous ; if it agrees it is superfluous.' It has perhaps escaped notice that this saying is a conscious or unconscious parody of that reply of... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...those which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century.19 "If a second chamber," said Sie"yes, " dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous."11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1896 - 734 pages
...which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century. 10 " If a second chamber," said Sie'yes, •• dissents from the first, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." 11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking by... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Great Britain - 1903 - 400 pages
...in England who are opposed One Chamber, to the bicameral principle. They believe with Sieyes that " if a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." The views of Sir Charles Dilke, " an advanced Liberal " and well-known writer on political affairs,... | |
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a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous. 
