The National ReviewW.H. Allen, 1910 - Great Britain |
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... Approval his “ great satisfaction " with that document , as well he might , because it showed that several essential reforms consistently advocated by him and strenuously resisted in Whitehall were now being officially adopted .
... Approval his “ great satisfaction " with that document , as well he might , because it showed that several essential reforms consistently advocated by him and strenuously resisted in Whitehall were now being officially adopted .
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As we have said , we do not believe in the alleged popularity of the Budget , nor are we intimidated by the claptrap of a secondrate Jack Cade , as the Spectator has appropriately Tariff Reform dubbed the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
As we have said , we do not believe in the alleged popularity of the Budget , nor are we intimidated by the claptrap of a secondrate Jack Cade , as the Spectator has appropriately Tariff Reform dubbed the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
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Nor can we afford to fight it at all except on condition that we put our own alternative of Tariff Reform in the foreground , instead of allowing it to remain in the background , as seems to have been the original policy of the Budget ...
Nor can we afford to fight it at all except on condition that we put our own alternative of Tariff Reform in the foreground , instead of allowing it to remain in the background , as seems to have been the original policy of the Budget ...
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The Reform Bill of 1832 put an end to the aristocratic régime which had prevailed during the eighteenth century , and placed the sovereign power beyond all question in a House of Commons elected by a genuinely popular franchise .
The Reform Bill of 1832 put an end to the aristocratic régime which had prevailed during the eighteenth century , and placed the sovereign power beyond all question in a House of Commons elected by a genuinely popular franchise .
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his account of the Constitution in the period following the first Reform Bill , while the newly enfranchised electorate were still unconscious of the power that had been placed in their hands , and he regarded the Cabinet ...
his account of the Constitution in the period following the first Reform Bill , while the newly enfranchised electorate were still unconscious of the power that had been placed in their hands , and he regarded the Cabinet ...
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