British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook Quotes

“courts”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“commission.”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“the past decade. The last edition was published in 2001. Since then, there has been significant constitutional, political, economic, and”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“Commons”
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“(36)”
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“Franchise Citizens age 18 and over (certain exceptions) Citizens age 18 and over (certain exceptions) Registration procedures Varies by state: historically, required to register in person Head of household by law completes annual registration form, submitted by mail”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke (known simply as the Chiltern”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“and pursuing its own interests rather than the interests of the government”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“use; Parliament has negating powers that it can but hardly ever does use. The executive in Britain can make assumptions about legislative support that few U.S. presidents would dare to make.”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“increasingly intricate political environment shaped by public expectations, judicial”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, monarchs were often dependent on particular ministers. However, it was not until the eighteenth century that a recognizable first, or “prime,” minister began to emerge. George I, the first of the Hanoverian kings, had little interest in British politics, spoke little or no English, and spent six months of each year on the Continent.”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“overcome a number of very real hurdles in Congress in order”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“pedagogic utility, enabling instructors to select specific chapters”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“the class-party nexus will be explored in more”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“living on their own. From 1986 to 2004, the percentage of nonmarried people under 60 who cohabited”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“be recognizable in American eyes, the most significant feature of the British polity is its continuing”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“parliamentary majority; the Conservative opposition appeared to be destined for a lengthy stay in the political wilderness; the country was enjoying continued,”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“introduced material or reworked analyses in response”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“end of the decade, the situation was transformed. A Labour government under a new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, faced”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“parliamentary majority; the Conservative opposition appeared to be destined for a lengthy stay in the political wilderness; the country was enjoying”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“on aristocratic patrons without acquiring too great”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“life than those who lead a peripatetic existence. Britain,”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“from the view that while a ministry retained the confidence of the elected”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“Whereas the 1832 act helped ensure the dominance of the House of Commons within the formal political process, the passage of the Reform Act of 1867 began a process of the transfer of power from Parliament to ministers. The act itself was the product of demands for change because of the limited impact of the 1832 act and because of more immediate”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“in the House of Commons, but it faces an organized opposition. Unlike in the United States, the cabinet is challenged by an alternative, the “shadow cabinet.” Government ministers are “shadowed” by members of the principal”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“more often than not, will reinforce one another. Parents remain the most”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“1942, about two out of five people had changed their political outlook”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“The welfare state and the managed economy did not suddenly emerge full-blown in this period. The preceding decades had not witnessed governments unresponsive to electoral expectations and the nation’s problems. The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions (1908) and national health and unemployment insurance (1911). The interwar years had seen the introduction of a number of significant”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“airways, and the electricity-generating industry.”
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“delineation”
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