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Author: G. Yerby Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023058988X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 319
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This book offers a fresh and rounded perspective on the English Revolution of the 1640s. It uses detailed evidence to show how the economic requirement for parliament's services underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working 'discourse' of ideas about the status of representative forms.
Author: J. Ramsay Macdonald Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330250747 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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Excerpt from Parliament and Revolution Even before the war came to displace in the minds of people thoughts of ordered progress by change of opinion and put in their stead those of violent conquest of power, impatience was being shown with Parliament and representative Government as the means of expressing the popular will; even the popular will itself was being analysed out of existence. James Mill's article on Government which appeared in 1820 in the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, expressed the faith of the Parliamentary Radicals. This was very simple. Give the people the vote, the argument ran, and Parliament will respond to popular desires. "If the community itself were the choosing body, the interest of the community and that of the choosing body would be the same." All the selfishness of the ruling classes will disappear because the ruling classes will themselves disappear. This was the argument for Democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: J. Ramsay Macdonald Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332792545 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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Excerpt from Parliament and Revolution Were the choosing body, the interest Of the community and that of the choosing body would be the same All the selfishness of the ruling classes will disappear because the ruling classes will themselves disappear. This was the argument for Democracy. Its foundation rested upon the assumption that the enfran chised masses had first Of all an abiding inter est in their own concerns, in the next place that they had the intelligence to find ways and means for producing the results which they desired, or that they would trust to guides who themselves had the intelligence and the com mon interest. The experiences Of the last three-quarters Of a century have thrown doubts upon these assumptions. Even if we regard the election of December, 1918, as being a special manifestation of passionate blindness and an exploitation by political leaders, moved by unusually low standards of honor, Of the emotions of a country just released from the horrible stress of war and intoxicated by the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Ramsay 1866-1937 MacDonald Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781371214159 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 126
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Author: Pasi Ihalainen Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782389555 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.
Author: Jeremy Black Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139452142 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 279
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Drawing on a wide range of British and foreign archival sources, this book tackles the role of Parliament in the conduct of eighteenth-century foreign policy, the impact of this policy on parliamentary politics, and the quality of parliamentary debates. It is also an important study for our assessment of eighteenth-century Britain, and also, more generally, for an understanding of the role of contingency in the assessment of political systems. Reflecting over a quarter-century of work on parliamentary sources, the book highlights the influence of Parliament, positive and negative, direct and indirect, on foreign policy and politics. It also has great contemporary relevance as we consider the effectiveness of democratic states when confronting authoritarian rivals, and the rights of representative bodies to be consulted before wars are launched.
Author: G. Yerby
Author: James Ramsay MacDonald
Author: J. Ramsay Macdonald
Author: James Ramsay MacDonald
Author: J. Ramsay Macdonald
Author: James Ramsay 1866-1937 MacDonald
Author: Pasi Ihalainen
Author: David Lewis Jones
Author: Jeremy Black
Author: Patrick O'Brien
Author: Marcus Collins