Cobden Club Essays: Local Government and TaxationCassell, Petter & Galpin, 1875 - 454 páginas |
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Página 416 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Página 391 - England a man of any rank more anxiously desirous to discharge his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him.
Página 81 - The authority which is most conversant with principles should be supreme over principles, while that which is most competent in details should have the details left to it.
Página 54 - Mayor sits with the Aldermen and the Recorder at the London Sessions, which are held eight times a year, and at which Her Majesty's judges occasionally preside. The police force of the City and liberties is distinct from the Metropolitan Constabulary, being commanded by a Commissioner, who is appointed by the Common Council, subject to the approval of the Crown. The City has, moreover, a separate Commission of Sewers, the members of which are appointed by the Corporation, and which regulates drainage,...
Página 191 - For a country so very far behind us as Ireland, to have got suddenly so much the start of us in the article of roads, is a spectacle that cannot fail to strike the English visitor exceedingly. It is a common complaint that the tolls of the turnpikes are so many jobs, and the roads left in a state that disgraces the kingdom.
Página 141 - At every election for each division every voter shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of the members of the school board to be elected for such division, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit...
Página 32 - ... execution of all writs issued by the superior courts, and is bound, as of old, to guard the proprietary rights of the Crown within his county. It has already been explained that by successive Acts of Parliament the management of county affairs has been mainly vested in the county magistrates, all of whom are nominated by the Lord Chancellor on the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant, and are liable to be dismissed by the Lord Chancellor at his own discretion. Being for the most part landowners...
Página 60 - A certain degree of diversity, it is true, must be ascribed to natural and inevitable causes, which no legislation could have eliminated, and which it is no part of sound policy to ignore. The Dock Board, which regulates the navigation of the Mersey at Liverpool, could have no place at Manchester. Villages separated by a mountain chain from the rest of their own county, must sometimes, perhaps, be linked with neighbouring villages in another county ; and venerable cities, with customs older than...
Página 360 - ... it was because we were free in the old Teutonic, positive, and concrete sense of the word freedom, and not in the abstract negative sense of the word liberte that we were self-governed ; and that it was because we were self-governed in our local affairs that a Parliament grew up in which we were able to govern ourselves in regard [ II ] to our imperial affairs : in a word, that in the received continental doctrinaire view cause and effect had been reversed.
Página 66 - It is, indeed, impossible to survey county administration in its entirety without being struck by the extraordinary absence of self-government in rural communities. We are wont to look back on Saxon times as barbarous, and on the feudal system as oppressive ; but the simple truth is, that nine-tenths of the population in an English country parish have at this moment less share in local government than belonged to all classes of freemen for centuries before and for centuries after the Norman Conquest....