Bagehot, Walter,
The English Constitution Walter Bagehot - 2nd - London Oxford University Press 1952 - xxvi,312 Pages 10x15 cm HB - The World's Classics, no. 330 .
With an introduction by "The First Earl Of Balfour."
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.
Great Britain
Politics and government
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
English Constitution (Bagehot, Walter)
England
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
342.4202
The English Constitution Walter Bagehot - 2nd - London Oxford University Press 1952 - xxvi,312 Pages 10x15 cm HB - The World's Classics, no. 330 .
With an introduction by "The First Earl Of Balfour."
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.
Great Britain
Politics and government
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
English Constitution (Bagehot, Walter)
England
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
342.4202