The Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and MunicipalLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873 - 380 頁 |
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action adopted amongst Appendix appropriated ballot Bill body boroughs candidat candidates causes character choice classes clause comparative majority constituency contingent votes Cumulative Vote députés desire district division droit duty effect election electoral district electors entitled equal excluded favour franchise give Guizot Hare's system House of Commons individual influence inhabitants intelligence interests kingdom labours legislation less Majorität majorité ment method Minorität minorité minority moral names nature necessary nombre nomination Norwich number of members number of votes object obtained operation Parliament parliamentary party persons political popular present principle proportion proportional representation proposed public opinion qu'il question quota of votes quotient Reform regard registrars repre representation representative respect result returning officer society Stimmen stituencies success suffrage supposed thought tion town United Kingdom Vertreter Vertretung voters votes given votes polled voting papers voting-papers Wahl Westminster Review William Henry Sykes
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第 43 頁 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
第 42 頁 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.
第 42 頁 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
第 260 頁 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
第 262 頁 - The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.
第 151 頁 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
第 223 頁 - By these theorists the right of the people is almost always sophistically confounded with their power. The body of the community, whenever it can come to act, can meet with no effectual resistance; but till power and right are the same, the whole body of them has no right inconsistent with virtue, and the first of all virtues, prudence. Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit...
第 223 頁 - By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause.
第 151 頁 - Every sort of moral, every sort of civil, every sort of politic institution, aiding the rational and natural ties that connect the human understanding and affections to the Divine, are not more than necessary, in order to build up that wonderful structure, Man, whose prerogative it is to be in a great degree a creature of his own making, and -who, when made as he ought to be made, is destined to hold no trivial place in the creation.
第 126 頁 - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust ; and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, author and founder of society.