The True Theory of Representation in a State ...Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - Representative government and representation - 101 pages |
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... debt , or distributed among the populace , a decisive majority of the people , on the nation being polled out , might at some period be found to vote in the affirmative ; and , according to the 12 NUMERICAL THEORY OF REPRESENTATION .
... debt , or distributed among the populace , a decisive majority of the people , on the nation being polled out , might at some period be found to vote in the affirmative ; and , according to the 12 NUMERICAL THEORY OF REPRESENTATION .
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... period of our history , entrusted to the management of persons only of a certain class . Until recently a vulgar prejudice had infused itself into the national mind that people of education and property were the most fit to administer ...
... period of our history , entrusted to the management of persons only of a certain class . Until recently a vulgar prejudice had infused itself into the national mind that people of education and property were the most fit to administer ...
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... period been so largely increased , yet , in accordance with the principle already alluded to as predominating in the changes lately made in our representative system , the universities now send each only two represen- tatives . * 4 Inst ...
... period been so largely increased , yet , in accordance with the principle already alluded to as predominating in the changes lately made in our representative system , the universities now send each only two represen- tatives . * 4 Inst ...
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... period of our parlia- mentary history returned each four members to the House of Commons . This was at a time , too , when the majority of the towns which now send representatives were not enfranchised . To the interest of wealth and ...
... period of our parlia- mentary history returned each four members to the House of Commons . This was at a time , too , when the majority of the towns which now send representatives were not enfranchised . To the interest of wealth and ...
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... period existed in a perfect form , from which it had degenerated , and to which that measure would at once restore it . That , according to the principle of the Constitution , those constituencies only which were the 42 REPRESENTATIVE ...
... period existed in a perfect form , from which it had degenerated , and to which that measure would at once restore it . That , according to the principle of the Constitution , those constituencies only which were the 42 REPRESENTATIVE ...
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