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The English Constitution

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Item Length: 9.2 in width: 7.5 in Item Width: 7.5 in Publication Year: 2012 Format: Trade Paperback Topic: Constitutions, General, Europe / Great Britain / General Book Title: English Constitution ISBN: 9781612034638 Item Weight: 9 Oz height: 0.3 in Item Height: 0.3 in Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing Author: Walter. Bagehot Language: English Number of Pages: 140 Pages Genre: Political Science, Literary Collections, History

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The English Constitution. Title: The English Constitution. Language: English. Publisher: BOTTOM OF THE HILL PUB. Weight: 0.56 lbs. Publication Date: 2012-03-08. ISBN13: 9781612034638. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: The English Constitution ISBN13: 9781612034638 ISBN10: 1612034632 Author: Bagehot, Walter (Author) Description: 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 Someone Time, Or Else He Will Be Putting Side By Side In His Representations Things Which Never Were Contemporaneous In Reality The Difficulty Is The Greater Because A Writer Who Deals With A Living Government Naturally Compares It With The Most Important Other Living Governments, And These Are Changing Too; What He Illustrates Are Altered In One Way, And His Sources Of Illustration Are Altered Probably In A Different Way This Difficulty Has Been Constantly In My Way In Preparing A Second Edition Of This Book It Describes The English Constitution As It Stood In The Years 1865 And 1866 Roughly Speaking, It Describes Its Working As It Was In The Time Of Lord Palmerston; And Since That Time There Have Been Many Changes, Some Of Spirit And Some Of Detail In So Short A Period There Have Rarely Been More Changes If I Had Given A Sketch Of The Palmerston Time As A Sketch Of The Present Time, It Would Have Been In Many Points Untrue; And If I Had Tried To Change The Sketch Of Seven Years Since Into A Sketch Of The Present Time, I Should Probably Have Blurred The Picture And Have Given Something Equally Unlike Both Walter Bagehot Was An English Businessman, Essayist, And Journalist Who Wrote Extensively About Literature, Government, And Economic Affairs Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: BOTTOM OF THE HILL PUB Publication Date: 2012-03-08 Weight: 0.56 lbs Dimensions: 0.3'' H x 9.25'' L x 7.52'' W Number of Pages: 140 Language: English

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