The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth CenturyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 183 Seiten |
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... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 1 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
... But , as they were care- ful to explain , it was never their idea to accept 1 See the examples given by Russell in the same work . 1 either wealth or population as a sole and sufficient 20 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
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... idea of the middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they ...
... idea of the middle - class reformers that the House of Commons had once been a popular assembly . They knew that every freeholder , previous to the year 1430 , had been entitled to vote for the mem- bers of the shires ; this they ...
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... idea of both was to reform the constitution , not to transform it . But the expectation of both has been falsified by the irony of history . Reform has been found to be only another name for transformation ; and the Bill of 1832 38 THE ...
... idea of both was to reform the constitution , not to transform it . But the expectation of both has been falsified by the irony of history . Reform has been found to be only another name for transformation ; and the Bill of 1832 38 THE ...
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... idea of the Whig reformers , as has been already pointed out , was not to destroy but to repair the existing frame of government ; to remove the anomalies and abuses which cir- cumstances and time had introduced , but to re- tain the ...
... idea of the Whig reformers , as has been already pointed out , was not to destroy but to repair the existing frame of government ; to remove the anomalies and abuses which cir- cumstances and time had introduced , but to re- tain the ...
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... idea , but that it was being adopted in practice was clear to at least a section of the House . ' We have arrived , ' said Mr. Lowe , at the point of a complete revolution in our constitu- tion , at an alteration so vast that no one ...
... idea , but that it was being adopted in practice was clear to at least a section of the House . ' We have arrived , ' said Mr. Lowe , at the point of a complete revolution in our constitu- tion , at an alteration so vast that no one ...
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