Word: parliament
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...living under a rigid constitution ? In America the constitution is found in every house and taught in every school, and can be read aloud in seventeen minutes. The consequence of this is that politics tend to become legal, and the Bar has far more importance than in England, where Parliament is omnipotent. Americans often say that their whole political history has been a struggle of strict as against loose constructionists. It is only fair to say that the American constitution works well, because it was imposed on a people educated in English legal habits. Hence the very conservative tone prevailing...
...Fulham. Mr. Motley, when he was minister to England, attempted to recover the book, but was unsuccessful. A copy of it, however, was made for America, and this has been published. The original is still in the library at Fulham. It may be recovered eventually, but an act of Parliament will be needed for that purpose...
...England, a well-timed riot or two and a judicious use of explosive are often necessary, some say, to call the attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is quite a parallel case near at hand; and those of us who are not over-gifted with the calm and tranquil mind, now and then regret the extinction of certain good old college customs, that have in times past, constrained the attention of our college Parliament in a similiar manner...
...professors has shown that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder...
...increased to 850 scholars alone, and the roll of instructors equals many a small college. As in the case of most of the large English schools, all the governing power was first centered in the provost and masters, but this absolute rule was soon changed by an act of Parliament ; and now, in Eton, as in all other schools of its kind, the fellows must be chosen from Oxford, Cambridge, and the Royal Society...