Local GovernmentMacmillan, 1883 - 160 pages |
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Page 157 - This series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information on the ordinary conditions, and the current terms, of our political life.
Page 160 - The following are the titles of the volumes :— 1. Central Government. HD TRAILL, DCL, late Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. [Ready. 2. The Electorate and the Legislature. SPENCER WALPOLE, Author of " The History of England from 1815.
Page 65 - s most unblushing advocate, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns.
Page 116 - Rates, or any or either of them, prospectively, in order to raise Money for the Payment of future Charges and Expenses, or retrospectively in order to raise Money for the Payment of Charges and Expenses which may have been incurred at any Time within Six Months before the making of the Rate...
Page 89 - This institution may be considered as a revival of the ancient local earldom ; and it certainly took away from the sheriff a great part of the dignity and importance which he had acquired since the discontinuance of that office. Yet the lord lieutenant has so peculiarly military an authority, that it does not in any degree control the civil power of the sheriff as the executive minister of the law.
Page 159 - The books are not intended to interpret disputed points in Acts of Parliament, nor to refer in detail to clauses or sections of those Acts ; but to select and sum up the salient features of any branch of legislation, so as to place the ordinary citizen in possession of the main points of the law. The following are the titles of the volumes : — CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
Page 7 - ... the national Parliament, and there are the same strong reasons for plurality of votes. Only, there is not so decisive an objection, in the inferior as in the higher body, to making the plural voting depend (as in some of the local elections of our own country) on a mere money qualification : for the honest and frugal dispensation of money forms so much larger a part of the business of the local, than of the national body, that there is more justice as well as policy in allowing a greater proportional...