Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 135
... governments have generally suffered justice to have a free course in private suits . Strafford wished to make every ... executive government . It is not strange that a man so careless of the common - civil rights , which even despots ...
... governments have generally suffered justice to have a free course in private suits . Strafford wished to make every ... executive government . It is not strange that a man so careless of the common - civil rights , which even despots ...
Page 152
... executive government , was recognised . The appointment of ministers , the relations with foreign powers , the conduct of a war or a negotiation , depended less on the pleasure of the Prince than on that of the two Houses . What then ...
... executive government , was recognised . The appointment of ministers , the relations with foreign powers , the conduct of a war or a negotiation , depended less on the pleasure of the Prince than on that of the two Houses . What then ...
Page 153
... government , having flourished together so long , languished and expired at almost the same time . It is the fashion ... executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Re- sistance to an established government , in ...
... government , having flourished together so long , languished and expired at almost the same time . It is the fashion ... executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Re- sistance to an established government , in ...
Page 203
... executive government to protect those very doctrines which an executive government is in general in- clined to persecute . The sovereign , the ministers , the courtiers , at last even the universities and the clergy , were changed into ...
... executive government to protect those very doctrines which an executive government is in general in- clined to persecute . The sovereign , the ministers , the courtiers , at last even the universities and the clergy , were changed into ...
Page 209
... executive govern- ment , it has drawn to itself some of the vices , and all the unpopularity of an executive government . On the House of Commons above all , possessed as it is of the public purse , and consequently of the public sword ...
... executive govern- ment , it has drawn to itself some of the vices , and all the unpopularity of an executive government . On the House of Commons above all , possessed as it is of the public purse , and consequently of the public sword ...
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