The English Constitution
The English Constitution

Author: Walter Bagehot

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1867

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.

Bagehot: The English Constitution
Bagehot: The English Constitution

Author: Bagehot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521469425

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Walter Bagehot's anatomy of The English Constitution is a classic of English political writing. In this new Cambridge Texts edition it appears for the first time in its original (1867) book version, with Bagehot's original conclusion, and the substantial introduction written for the second edition of 1872. Paul Smith's introduction places Bagehot's views in the context of contemporary events and prevalent views of the working of the constitution, indicating their relation to his developing ideas on the anthropological and sociological springs of authority. He assesses the accuracy of Bagehot's account of parliamentary government in operation, and the strength of Bagehot's analysis of the difficulties faced by British liberalism in coming to terms with the approach of democracy. All the usual student-friendly features of the Cambridge Texts series are present, including a select bibliography and brief biographies of key figures, and annotation which explains some of Bagehot's more arcane contemporary allusions.

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

Author: T. Bose

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780774802741

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 12
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 12

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 1040247717

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Contemplation and Action 1902-14 is the first volume devoted exclusively to Russell's non-technical writings. It follows chronologically Volume 1, Cambridge Essays: 1888-99 which presented his earliest papers.

Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9780415104623

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