 The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency....  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2841827Full view - About this book
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 | Norman Ward - 1950 - 328 pages
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 | Leonard Cooper - 1959 - 336 pages
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 | Milton Katz - 1966 - 264 pages
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...of Commons shall be made to bear some stamp of the actual disposition of the people at large. . . . The virtue, spirit and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.71 It is always "sentiment" or popular "feelings" that... | |
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