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" a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous. "
Popular Government: Four Essays - Page 178
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 261 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 159

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...misconception of the nature of a Second or Upper House, and these opinions merit some consideration. Let us take first the most trenchant of the proposals recently...them to be burnt. ' If the books,' said the Commander of the Faithful to his lieutenant, ' differ from the book of the Prophet, they are impious ; if they...
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Popular Government: Four Essays

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...Chamber he proposed there was to be a minutely accurate representation of minorities. This.condition was dropped in the late controversy, and it was thought...them to be burnt. " If the books," said the Commander of the Faithful to his lieutenant, " differ from the book of the Prophet, they are impious ; if thev...
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The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 25

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1886 - 592 pages
...representation. Jefferson returned from Europe a convert to the epigrammatic doctrine of Sieves : " If a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." Washington's counter argument is the homeliest that is associated with his name. Of Jefferson, breakfasting...
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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern: With ...

Quotations - 1890 - 270 pages
...Athens and Rome," chap. 4. It was thought enough to quote the well-known epigram 01 the Abbe Sieyes on the subject of Second Chambers. " If "it runs,...them to be burnt. " If the books," said the Commander of the Faithful to his lieutenant, " differ from the book of the Prophet, they are impious , if they...
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The Baronage and the Senate: Or, The House of Lords in the Past, the Present ...

William Charteris Macpherson - Nobility - 1893 - 440 pages
...the First. "'If,' wrote Sir Henry Maine, 'it [the Radical argument] runs, a Second Chamber differs from the First it is mischievous ; if it agrees it...them to be burnt. ' If the books,' said the Commander of the Faithful to his lieutenant, ' differ from the book of the Prophet they are impious ; if they...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical ..., Volume 1

Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...those which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century.19 "If a second chamber," said Sie"yes, " dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous."11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical ..., Volume 1

Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1896 - 734 pages
...which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century. 10 " If a second chamber," said Sie'yes, •• dissents from the first, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." 11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking by...
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The Theory and Practice of the English Government

Thomas Francis Moran - Great Britain - 1903 - 400 pages
...England who are opposed One Chamber, to the bicameral principle. They believe with Sieyes that " if a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." The views of Sir Charles Dilke, " an advanced Liberal " and well-known writer on political affairs,...
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The Reform of the House of Lords: With a Criticism of the Report of the ...

William Sharp McKechnie - 1909 - 192 pages
...problem of a Second Chamber is one to be envied ; for, to him it presented no difficulties whatever. " If a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." It was on similar grounds that the contents of the Alexandrian Library, viewed as possible rivals to the...
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English Political Institutions: An Introductory Study

Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Administrative law - 1910 - 362 pages
...And yet a priori there is much to be said for the famous dilemma propounded by the Abbe Sidyes : ' If a Second Chamber dissents from the first it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it; it is superfluous.' But the nations of the modern world have with rare unanimity refused to...
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