The Crown and Its Advisers: Or, Queen, Ministers, Lords, & Commons |
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... British Constitution . Now what is the British Constitution ? You hear its name thundered forth on the hustings , at meet- ings , at debates , and perhaps you talk about it your- selves without understanding very well its mean- ing ...
... British Constitution . Now what is the British Constitution ? You hear its name thundered forth on the hustings , at meet- ings , at debates , and perhaps you talk about it your- selves without understanding very well its mean- ing ...
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... British people . A democracy , however popular among certain classes of our nation at first , would soon lose its authority , from the want of that social influence which is so dear to the English in general . No government in England ...
... British people . A democracy , however popular among certain classes of our nation at first , would soon lose its authority , from the want of that social influence which is so dear to the English in general . No government in England ...
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... British Constitution . But this statement need not shock your religious principles , as her Majesty's infalli- bility is only political ; for whatever is exceptionable in the conduct of public affairs is not to be imputed to her , nor ...
... British Constitution . But this statement need not shock your religious principles , as her Majesty's infalli- bility is only political ; for whatever is exceptionable in the conduct of public affairs is not to be imputed to her , nor ...
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... British constitution , as now interpreted , are the personal irresponsibility of the sovereign , the responsibility of ministers , and the inquisitorial power of Parliament . Now , you often hear it said that the Ministry is the real ...
... British constitution , as now interpreted , are the personal irresponsibility of the sovereign , the responsibility of ministers , and the inquisitorial power of Parliament . Now , you often hear it said that the Ministry is the real ...
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... British Constitution . The supreme executive autho- rity belongs to the Crown , nor do the measures adopted by its ministers in the exercise of this authority require the previous sanction of Parlia- ment . Parliament , when complaining ...
... British Constitution . The supreme executive autho- rity belongs to the Crown , nor do the measures adopted by its ministers in the exercise of this authority require the previous sanction of Parlia- ment . Parliament , when complaining ...
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Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 83 - ... raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Page 11 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 217 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 220 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Page 222 - ... of despotism, or the licentiousness of unbridled freedom — reconciling power with liberty : not adopting hasty or ill-advised experiments, or pursuing any airy and unsubstantial theories ; but not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the service of his country any generous and liberal principles, whose excess, indeed, may be dangerous, but whose foundation is in truth.
Page 83 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid...
Page 11 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 83 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.
Page 77 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...