Word: parliament
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Lecture. Parliament of Religions. Professor C. H. Toy. Divinity Chapel...
...tends towards dangerous concentration of power: - (a) The members are chosen from the two legislative branches: Sidgewick's Elements of Politics, 403. - (b) Single assembly in England free to exercise full powers over the constitution: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers, IV. III - (c) The cabinet system has practically deposed Parliament of legislative initiative: ibid...
...University of Cambridge elects two members of Parliament, a privilege which it has held for two hundred years...
...present bill is practical; - (a) Supremacy of imperial Parliament retained; - (b) Ireland receives real autonomy in local affairs; Home Rule bill in Bost. Herald, Feb. 19, 1893 - (c) Irish minority in Parliament could not affect Eng. questions; Gladstone in London Times...
...Home Rule would be had for Great Britain. - (a) A federation requires good feeling to be successful: Dicey, Introduction. - (b) The Irish Parliament cannot be trusted to settle the land question, for England is bound in honor to the landlords: Fortn. XLV, 861; Sat. Rev., CLIV 291; Blackwood vol. 139, p. 684. - (c) It would set a bad example...