The Independent Review, Volume 12Edward Jenks T.F. Unwin, 1907 |
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... popular sanction , laws were passed , the reversal of which now consumes so much time and energy needed for political advance , I wish here to plead for a just and reasonable application of the democratic doctrine of the mandate as the ...
... popular sanction , laws were passed , the reversal of which now consumes so much time and energy needed for political advance , I wish here to plead for a just and reasonable application of the democratic doctrine of the mandate as the ...
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... popular support . Now the question of the bona fides of this position is irrelevant . For democrats the doctrine is a sound one , and what is more its careful application furnishes the most serviceable escape from the impasse with which ...
... popular support . Now the question of the bona fides of this position is irrelevant . For democrats the doctrine is a sound one , and what is more its careful application furnishes the most serviceable escape from the impasse with which ...
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... popular mandate for a measure , the only mode by which an answer can be got is to submit the Bill alone to the popular vote for its direct acceptance or rejection ! Let the Government introduce a Bill empowering the House of Commons ...
... popular mandate for a measure , the only mode by which an answer can be got is to submit the Bill alone to the popular vote for its direct acceptance or rejection ! Let the Government introduce a Bill empowering the House of Commons ...
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... popular vote . If the option of referendum were bestowed upon the Lords on the second presentation of the Commons ' Bill , the last amending would have lain with the Commons ; if the Commons exercised the option the Lords would have had ...
... popular vote . If the option of referendum were bestowed upon the Lords on the second presentation of the Commons ' Bill , the last amending would have lain with the Commons ; if the Commons exercised the option the Lords would have had ...
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... I am not mistaken , come to be recognised here , as in Switzerland , for a valuable instrument of popular government . No. 40. - VOL . XII . 25 D A " 9 To those brought up on the classical phraseology THE LORDS OR THE PEOPLE ?
... I am not mistaken , come to be recognised here , as in Switzerland , for a valuable instrument of popular government . No. 40. - VOL . XII . 25 D A " 9 To those brought up on the classical phraseology THE LORDS OR THE PEOPLE ?
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Page 57 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 223 - Las ! voyez comme en peu d'espace, Mignonne, elle a dessus la place Las ! las ! ses beautez laissé cheoir ! O vrayment marastre Nature, Puis qu'une telle fleur ne dure Que du matin jusques au soir ! Donc, si vous me croyez, mignonne, Tandis que vostre âge fleuronne En sa plus verte nouveauté, Cueillez, cueillez vostre jeunesse : Comme à ceste fleur, la vieillesse Fera ternir vostre beauté.
Page 205 - If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you ; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Page 57 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 205 - If a white man in travelling through our country enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you : we dry him if he is wet; we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink that he may allay his thirst and hunger ; and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on.
Page 46 - ... that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity.
Page 226 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Page 291 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person.
Page 223 - Mignonne, allons voir si la rose Qui ce matin avoit desclose Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil, A point perdu ceste vesprée Les plis de sa robe pourprée, Et son teint au vostre pareil. Las ! voyez comme en peu d'espace, Mignonne, elle a dessus la place Las, las, ses...
Page 341 - The gentry are all round; stand up now, stand up now; The gentry are all round; stand up now. The gentry are all round; on each side they are found, This wisdom's so profound, to cheat us of our ground. Stand up now, stand up now.