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Book Synopsis The House of Lords the Constitution (Classic Reprint) by : J. H. Morgan
Download or read book The House of Lords the Constitution (Classic Reprint) written by J. H. Morgan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House of Lords the Constitution Prerogative, nothing is more certain than that for a long period of time successive Sovereigns of this country have relied upon the advice of Ministers who have been selected because they enjoy the support of the House of Commons. And to this are largely due the complete confidence and affection with which the Crown is re garded even In the most troubled times. In a word, we live under a Constitutional Monarchy, to use a familiar expression. I do not know what this expres sion means, unless there is a real distinction between what is legal and what is Constitutional. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Nature and Origin of the House of Lords (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Augustus Freeman
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of the House of Lords (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nature and Origin of the House of Lords Ment; in every free state there must be both some kind of executive government and some kind of popular assembly. It does not follow that either need take the exact shape which they take among 0 selves, but both must exist in some shape. Without the House of Commons, or some other assembly of the same kind, there could not be freedom without the Crown or some other power to do its work, there could not be order. But it is at least conceivable that both freedom and order might go ou, although the House of Lords were abolished and no other power of any kind put in its place. In other words, the House of Lords is not practically on a level with the other two powers. The other two are essential. The House of Lords may be venerable, it may be ornamental, it may even be highly useful but it is not essential. It might be swept away and nothing put in its place without a return to chaos. If we swept away either of the other powers and did not put something else in its place, chaos would return. Something like this line of thought is silently implied in what is in itself so singular a phenomenon as the present demand for abolition or sweeping change in one of the great powers of the State, and that on the ground of a single vote which has given offence. It is not said that the vote is either illegal or unprecedented it can be called unconstitutional only in a somewhat strained sense of that flexible word. The House gives offence, and it is at once either to be de stroyed or to have its distinguishing constitution altogether changed In itself this seems somewhat hasty dealing. No doubt this one vote is in truth rather the occasion than the cause of an indignation so deeply felt. The real cause is not this vote taken by itself, but this vote coming after a long series of other votes. Yet it is certain that, up to the time of the present vote, there was no violent or outspoken popular feeling against the House of Lords. There may have been a deep or a widespread feeling; but if so, it was so deep or so wide that it did not come to the surface. We may be quite sure that, if the Lords had passed the Franchise Bill, even by a small majority, there would have been no cry for the abolition or the sweeping reform of their House, at least till they gave offence about some other matter. The cause may, and doubtless does, lie much deeper than the occasion but the occasion has at least been startling in the suddenness of the results which it has called forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Constitutional History of the House of Lords by : Luke Owen Pike
Download or read book Constitutional History of the House of Lords written by Luke Owen Pike and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitutional History of the House of Lords: From Original Sources Though there are many Constitutional Histories of England and Histories of Parliament, there has, it is believed, hitherto been no Constitutional His tory of the House of Lords. The reader in search of information could only extract it laboriously from disconnected passages in works of great length, or find it shaped as ammunition for the purposes of party warfare in political treatises. The scope of the present work is different from that held in view by such well-known historians as Hallam, May, Gneist, or Bishop Stubbs, or in the polemical essays of Prynne or Freeman. The materials used, though, to some extent, necessarily the same as those upon which they relied, have been largely drawn from other sources, and have been wrought to other ends. Statements of fact are consequently often inconsistent with those made in preceding works on the Constitution, but the original authorities on which they rest have been indicated. It has, therefore, been thought needless to point out the variations, except in some very remarkable instances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The New Democracy and the Constitution (Classic Reprint) by : William Sharp Mckechnie
Download or read book The New Democracy and the Constitution (Classic Reprint) written by William Sharp Mckechnie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Democracy and the Constitution Conservative statesmen, on the other hand, whether peers or commoners, have been equally emphatic that their main object in resisting the Parliament Bill has been to protect the people from being balked of their real desires by the Chamber of their own election. The ancient powers of the House of Lords have been defended by Conservatives almost exclusively on the ground that they ensured the triumph of the genuine will of the people against a capricious, selfish, or obsolescent House of Commons. The strongest argument for the Referendum takes a similar trend: the best method of giving effect to the sacred will of the people is to refer each legislative measure separately to the decision of the citizens voting an explicit yes or no on each particular issue as it arises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The House of Lords During the Civil War (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Harding Firth
Download or read book The House of Lords During the Civil War (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Harding Firth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House of Lords During the Civil War Much of this book was written many years before the present controversy about the powers and the use fulness of the House of Lords arose. Parts of Chapters V. And VIII. Appeared in M acmillan's M agazine during I894 - 5, and a few pages of Chapter VIII. Are an abridg ment of certain passages in The Last Years of the Pro tectorate.' It seemed to me desirable, at the risk of some repetition, to put together a consecutive account of the political action of the peerage during the first half of the seventeenth century, and of the vicissitudes through which the House of Lords passed in those troubled times. Between I603 and 1640 the peerage took an important, and at moments a decisive, part in the defence of the constitution against the Crown. Between i64o and I649 every kind of expedient was tried or discussed in order to make the policy of the Upper House conform to that of the Lower - coercion and pur gation of the Upper House, restriction of the power of the Crown to create new peers, amalgamation of the two Houses, limitation or abolition of the veto of the Lords, and finally the abolition of the House itself. The next ten years proved the drawbacks of single chamber government and the difficulty of creating a new Secondevents, and those who witnessed them, speak for them selves, and to set forth their Opinions and arguments for the instruction of their descendants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Crusade Against the Constitution by : William Thomas Charley
Download or read book The Crusade Against the Constitution written by William Thomas Charley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Crusade Against the Constitution: An Historical Vindication of the House of Lords This was the language of the present Prime Minister at Bradford.2 It affords an ample justification for the appear ance of this work. As the Church of England is, like the House of Lords, an integral part of the Constitution, this work has, necessarily, been written from a Church of England standpoint. It has also been written, to some extent, from a Conserva tive point of view. This is due to the fact that the Radical party have been its sole assailants; but the maintenance of the House of Lords, as an integral part of the Constitution, is so vital to the existence of the British Empire, that it towers above the region of politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Reform in Parliamentary Business by : W. Rathbone
Download or read book Reform in Parliamentary Business written by W. Rathbone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reform in Parliamentary Business: House of Lords As the Lords are now constituted, they do not so much legislate as register, and Often with a bad grace, the decrees of the House of Commons. But a Second Chamber should do more than record the resolutions of the First it should complete and harmonise the whole Of legislation. In order to do this it must be capable Of a lively and intelligent sympathy with the nation at large; and we cannot too often repeat that the creation of this sympathy should be the reformer's prime Object. In the solution of our present problem let us begin by trying to conceive clearly the ends which should be sub served by a Second Chamber. We shall then be able to see how far the House of Lords at present attains those ends, and how far it stands in need of reform. Roughly speaking, the ends for which a Second Chamber should exist are three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Nature and Origin of the House of Lords by : Freeman Edward Augustus
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of the House of Lords written by Freeman Edward Augustus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study of the British House of Lords by Edward Augustus Freeman remains an essential text for anyone interested in British politics or history. Examining the origins and evolution of the upper house of Parliament, Freeman's work is a fascinating exploration of the British constitution. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia by : James Harvey Robinson
Download or read book Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia written by James Harvey Robinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia: Translated and Supplied With an Introduction and Notes Public and rivate sessions. As amende A ?u0rum of the chamber of deputies. Need for a majori 0 votes. A quorum of the house of lords. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis An Address to the King, the Lords, and Commons, on the Representative Constitution of England (Classic Reprint) by : H. A. Merewether
Download or read book An Address to the King, the Lords, and Commons, on the Representative Constitution of England (Classic Reprint) written by H. A. Merewether and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address to the King, the Lords, and Commons, on the Representative Constitution of England Abuses, extensive and important, have crept into the sources from which this body is constituted, till the most striking anomalies and absurdities have become apparently a part of that system, which, if continued in its purity, would have been the admiration of the world for its simplicity but, disfigured by usurpations, has become the theme of complaint amongst your Majesty's subjects, and our opprobrium amongst the neighbouring nations, and is rendered so confused and intricate, that the powers of the human mind are unequal to compre hend or unravel it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Governance of England (Classic Reprint) by : Sidney Low
Download or read book The Governance of England (Classic Reprint) written by Sidney Low and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Governance of England A re-touched portrait is seldom a satisfactory production. It is a fact I have bad to keep in mind in preparing for the press this new edition of a book first published more than nine years ago. Such fidelity to the original as the sketch may hare possessed when executed might be lost in the attempt to make it a register of all the changes which time has wrought upon the features of the subject. The task would be one of peculiar difficulty at the present moment; for my revised edition is called for, as it happens, while the structure of our polity is undergoing a process of reconstruction still incomplete. With the ultimate form and powers of the Upper Chamber in suspense, and with the revolution in the government of Ireland impending but undecided, it would be futile to pass a definite judgment on transitory developments which must eventually assume a more definite and tangible shape. And so, while drawing some fresh illustrations and arguments from the events of the past few years, I prefer to leave this book as, in the main, an account of the "working constitution" of the United Kingdom in the opening decade of the twentieth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom (Classic Reprint) by : Leonard Henry Courtney
Download or read book The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom (Classic Reprint) written by Leonard Henry Courtney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom General Election, xvn. Course of Business in Parliament, Private Bill Legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Remarks on the Essentials of a Free Government and on the Genuine Constitution of the British House of Commons by : D. M. Peacock
Download or read book Remarks on the Essentials of a Free Government and on the Genuine Constitution of the British House of Commons written by D. M. Peacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks on the Essentials of a Free Government and on the Genuine Constitution of the British House of Commons: In Answer to the Theories of Modern Reformers 'mary objects of political association, who, like him, are convinced that the delusion, which in the pre sent day seems to fascinate many of the most zealous votaries of political liberty, originates in misconceptions respecting the very substance of that freedom, for which they contend. The means, by which political liberty is secured, seem to be confounded by them with that liberty itself; and a participation in the direction of public affairs, exercised either immediately by the subject, or mediately by his representative, is, it should seem, included by them in the very notion of free dom, and considered as one of its essential ingre dients. As this extravagant opinion affords ample scope for the wildest and most indefinite specula tions on the subject of government; so is it calcu lated only to produce in the minds of the people a spirit of licentiousness, and to §ap the very founda tions of civil obedience.' For the very first conclu sion, that the subject is naturally led to draw from it, is obviously this - that he is no farther free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by : A.V. Dicey
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution written by A.V. Dicey and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-09-30 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law, The Law of the Constitution elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the legislative sovereignty of Parliament, the rule of law, and the binding force of unwritten conventions.
Book Synopsis English Constitutional Theory and the House of Lords 1556-1832 (Routledge Revivals) by : Corinne Weston
Download or read book English Constitutional Theory and the House of Lords 1556-1832 (Routledge Revivals) written by Corinne Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, this work studies the House of Lords and the various proposals for its reform, abolition or limitation of its powers which have been made in the light o f prevailing theories of the nature and characteristics of the English government. The work also contains a history of the theory of mixed government that arose in Tudor England and lasted until well after the Reform Act of 1832. This history both illuminates the position of the House of Lords and also provides perspective for the study of Democracy in the movement for parliamentary reform. One of the book's most original features is an extensive account of Charles I's Answer to the Nineteen Propostions, out of which came the startling new theory of the constitution, known as "mixed monarchy".
Book Synopsis The English-Speaking Brotherhood and the League of Nations (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Walston
Download or read book The English-Speaking Brotherhood and the League of Nations (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Walston and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English-Speaking Brotherhood and the League of Nations I should again1 like to publish here two letters from per sonal friends whom. I consider to have been at that time the most representative of the two broadly differing, if not Opposed, conceptions of America's position in the foreign affairs of the world, John Hay and Charles Eliot Norton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The English Constitution by : Walter Bagehot
Download or read book The English Constitution written by Walter Bagehot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1867 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
