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...aica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "guided le... ...arliaments, local police forces, and judiciary. During states of emergency, Lander assemblies and governments were suspended and they were ruled di...

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...ersal adult at age 18 Elections: presidential, 12 January 1984; departmental assemblies, 2 June 1974; local assemblies, 30 March 1975; legisla- tive, ... ...s (1986) Government Official name: Commonwealth of Austra- lia Type: federal parliamentary state recog- nizing Elizabeth II as sovereign or head of st... ...ines), Nuclear Disarmament Party (Michael Denborough) Voting strength: (1984 parliamentary election) House of Representatives Labor Party 82 seats, Li... ...presidential elections Elections: presidential, every six years (next 1992); parliamentary, every four years (next 1990) Political parties and leaders... ...man; Green Alternative List (GAL), Freda Meissner-Blau Voting strength: 1986 parliamentary election SPO 43.1%, OVP 41.3%, FPO 9.7%, GAL 4.8%, KPO .7%,... ...ections held in December 1983; higher local elections held in May 1985; last parliamentary elections held in May 1986; last presidential election held... ...rsal over age 18 Elections: pro forma elections held .for national and local assemblies; last election for National Assembly held on 25 April 1976 Pol... ...mbly, county and municipal executives every four years; county and municipal assemblies every four years Political parties and leaders: Kuomint- ang, ...

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...ock between peasant parties led to King Alexander's fateful decision to abolish the parliamentary system. King Alexander I was a good and worth... ...n by Serb Democrats. Days before his death, he earnestly considered to return to a parliamentary form of government. But it was too late and too li... ...the "revolutionary Movement for the Merger of Albanians" in 1964 - established the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo (PPK) before he handed it over to ... ...pendent justice, corrupt law enforcement, non-existent freedom of press, religion, assemblies, speech, lack of secular education - the list is endl...

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...n, an ephemeral effort of the Chamber of Deputies to realize the threat of parliamentary government,—a threat a la Cromwell, which without a Cromwell ... ...produce your candidates and weigh their merits—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes... ...“if the meeting itself nominated those officers,—following, of course, the parliamentary forms of the Chamber.” “That is best,” said the huge Monsieur... ...sieurs,” continued Beauvisage, prompted by Simon, “if we are—to conform—to parliamentary usage—I shall beg—the honorable gentleman —Monsieur Pigoult—t... ...l his courage to say:— “Monsieur Simon Giguet has the floor.” IV THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY TEMPEST “MESSIEURS,” said Simon Giguet, “I ask permission to ... ...ecom- ing accustomed here, in this limited meeting, to the usages of great assemblies. We shall be all the more able to decide 24 The Deputy of Arcis...

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... bril- liant manner of repeating political anecdotes, and the political or parliamentary tittle-tattle —if the expression may pass—which at that time ... ...ous banquets by which the ministers of that time secured the vote of their parliamentary recruits. The Honorable Deputy was consequently pointed at as... ...revolutionary, so long as they leave the King at liberty to disperse their assemblies.” When they had gone a little way, and the Count and his compani...

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...s: the time is not long. On Sunday the twenty-sixth of August, our Primary Assemblies shall meet, begin electing of Elec- tors; on Sunday the second o... ...t, ye lose all! It is not without a dramatic emotion that one reads in the Parliamentary Debates of this Wednesday evening ‘past seven o’clock,’ the s... ...r Ex- Members, Deputy Journeau, who chanced to be lying in arrest for mere Parliamentary delinquencies, in these Pris- ons. As for poor old Dusaulx an... ...ad; and can be seen growing also, very curiously, in this mighty welter of Parliamentary Debate, of Public Business which the Convention has to do. A ... ...m; (1st February; 7th March (Moniteur of these dates).)—a point of immense Parliamentary and Journalis- tic interest in those days, but which has beco... ...t, and generally with the Authorities of the Departments, and such as read Parliamentary Debates, and are of Respectability, and of a peace-loving mon... ...ing quiet in Bourges, to whom we could run? Nay even the Primary electoral Assemblies, thinks Guadet, might be reconvoked, and a New Convention got, w...

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...f political economy as laid down in the news papers, and knows a great many parliamentary speeches by heart; nay, he has a small stock of aphorisms, ... ...thoroughly persuaded that he has got the better of the other. In society, at assemblies, balls, and playhouses, these po litical young gentlemen are ...

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...the place for explaining to the reader that irreconcilable dispute amongst Parliamentary lawyers as to the question whether Lord Aberdeen’s bill were ... ...y Parliament—that any district or circumjacent territory, allotted to such parliamentary churches as the range within which the incumbent was to exerc... ...d succeed in thus intercepting the direct power of haranguing mobs in open assemblies, then will I harangue them, and cause them to be harangued, in t... ...ectacle would give probably a fatal bias to that system in our popular and Parliamentary counsels. This would move the sorrow of the Seceders themselv... ...een intercepted by his premature death, still the ludicrous aspects of the Parliamentary war, and its fighting saints, were too striking to have peris... ...s Mr. James observes, by the deposition of Chilperic—by the grand national assemblies of the Champ de Mars—and by other great historical facts. Now, t...

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...therefore obliged to spread secretly, and to gain ground in the provincial assemblies, and especially in the townships. American society was not yet p... ...d easily destroyed. A nation is al- ways able to establish great political assemblies, because it habitually contains a certain number of individuals ... ...ntinent of Europe which has experienced its advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. T own-meet-... ...s of these two Bodies. The legislative power of the State is vested in two assemblies, the first of which generally bears the name of the Senate. The ... ...of note, whose language would at all times do honor to the most remarkable parliamentary debates of Europe. What then is the cause of this strange con... ...n their coun- try the jury is introduced into the games of schoolboys, and parliamentary forms are observed in the order of a feast. 351 Tocqueville ... ...e the faculties of men, not to complete their prostration. Chapter XXI: Of Parliamentary Eloquence in The United States Amongst aristocratic nations a... ... consider the matter in this light; and they show their long experience of parliamentary life not by abstaining from making bad speeches, but by cou- ... ...heir personal independence I trust not to great political as- semblies, to parliamentary privilege, or to the assertion of popular sovereignty. All th...

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...more than snakes in Van T roil’s Ice- land; except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hides his shame in the “coal cellar.” And, as... ...erful established interests, a large system of new arrangements, and a new parliamentary statute. As things were at present, twice in the year so vast... ...into his mouth at once. “We took a mouthful,” says Sir William Waller, the Parliamentary general, “took a mouthful; paid our reckoning; mounted; and w... ...of day when anybody in Rome would have attended. Just as, in alluding to a parliamentary speech no- toriously delivered at midnight, an English satiri... ...nted to voting, all the business a man could have was to attend the public assemblies, electioneering, or fac- tious. These, and any judicial trial (p...

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...erence be- tween our two kinds of civil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel b... ...e no victory yet definable can be considered as final. Beat him down, with Parliamentary invective, till sense be fled; cut him in two, hanging one ha... ...easure, at what point he becomes 19 Thomas Carlyle logically defunct, can Parliamentary Business be carried on, and Talk cease or slake? Doubtless it... ...mbers of the old Constituent in it, with their experi- ence of parties and parliamentary tactics; that such was their foolish Self-denying Law. Most s... ...ing Constitution, can oppose nothing, by way of remedy, but mere bursts of parliamentary eloquence! They go on, de- bating, denouncing, objurgating: l... ...defenders, had we but a National Executive? Let the Sec- tions and Primary Assemblies, at any rate, become Perma- nent, and sit continually in Paris, ...

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...gs, passes resolutions, never comes to fisty cuffs or bowie knives as sane assemblies have been known to do elsewhere; and conducts all its pro ceedi... ...the Doctor; and he moves a very Chesterfield among the company. Like other assemblies, these entertainments afford a fruitful topic of conversation am... ...party at Boston and a party in London, saving that at the former place all assemblies are held at more rational hours; that the conversation may possi... ... designed. The sittings, I need hardly add, take place in the day; and the parliamentary forms are modelled on those of the old country. I was sometim... ...eturned to this house once. It was on the occasion of one of those general assemblies which are held on certain nights, between the hours of nine and ... ... transaction of public life. By repelling worthy men from your legislative assemblies, it has bred up a class of candidates for the suffrage, who, in ...

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...he di- lemmas of a woman. ‘Dear me, Emma! think of stepping aside from the parliamentary road to entreat a husband to relent, and arrange the domestic... ...rsational breakfasts, private afternoon concerts, all the humming season’s assemblies. Mr. Warwick’s treat- ment of his wife was taken by implication ... ...nation to the sack. There was talk in the feminine world, at Lady Wathin’s assemblies. The elevation of her husband had extended and deepened her infl... ...to serve her.’ ‘I want my girl married,’ said old Quintin. ‘He’s one of my Parliamentary chiefs, with first-rate prospects; good family, good sober fe... ...ws. She had it from a lady who had come across Miss Asper at Lady Wathin’s assemblies, and considered the great heiress extraordinarily handsome. ‘ A ... ...ir influ- ence. They cannot, as Diana said, comparing them with men on the Parliamentary platform, cannot feel they are aboard the big vessel; they ca... ...e Ministers’ wives. Perhaps he does. Marriage will become a danger-sign to Parliamentary members. Foreign women do these tricks … women of a well-know...

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... found ourselves among at this time were people, to put it roughly, of the Parliamentary candidate class, or people already actually placed in the pol... ...n to hold us all together. I 198 The New Machiavelli found the talk about Parliamentary procedure and etiquette particularly trying. We dined with th... ... was a disposition to wear the hat much too forward, I thought, for a good Parliamentary style. There was much play with the hats all through; a treme... ... to get something like a representative collec- 223 H G Wells tion of the parliamentary leaders of Socialism, the various exponents of Socialist thou... ...res of Liberals and of Socialists I have given, I recall one of those huge assemblies the Duchess of Clynes inaugurated at Stamford House. The place i... ...d devotion evapo- rated from my life; but I do know that quite early in my parliamentary days there had come a vague, unconfessed re- sentment at the ...

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...she was welcomed by great people; and from the fine dinner parties to fine assemblies, whither the same people came with whom she had been dining, who... ...ishes—civilization advances; peace is kept; new dresses are wanted for new assemblies every week; and the last year’s vintage of Lafitte will remuner-... ...s in the cab in which she had hastened to his release. “Pitt was gone to a parliamentary dinner,” she said, “when Rawdon’s note came, and so, dear Raw... ... word as a gentleman”—Mr. Wenham here put his hand on his waistcoat with a parliamentary air—”I declare I think that your suspicions are monstrous and...

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...had got the estate into a better condition than ever it had been since the Parliamentary wars; and my lord was now master of a pretty, small income, n... ...for any man under the de- gree of a Prince. She was born to shine in great assemblies, and to adorn palaces, and to command everywhere—to con- duct an... ...he week, and all the wits and a few of the beauties of London flock to her assemblies. When she goes abroad to Tunbridge or the Bath, a retinue of ado...

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... ther troops nor money to send to the interior, evaded the difficulty by a parliamentary gasconade. Not being able to send material aid to the faithfu... ...rec- tory despaired of immediately subduing it. Consequently, it asked the Assemblies to pass certain special measures relat- ing to the independent c... ...mong them are on Sundays and feast-days in the parish church. These silent assemblies, under the eye of the rector (the only ruler of these rough mind... ...les of lib- erty, independence, and rights of human reason awakened by our Assemblies and gaining strength, as I believe, from day to day. France is l...

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... whom they styled, not Revolutionaries, but revolted subjects, or, in more parliamentary language, they had no dealings with Liberals or Constitutionn... ...ents the nobles in the Chamber.” (He took the upper electoral colleges for assemblies of his own order.) “Re- ally, they think no more of us than if w...

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...enjoy myself: and Mary Smith often said I was the very best partner at our assemblies. While we were dancing, I told Lady Jane how Roundhand, Gutch, a... ..., such an As- sociation as ours was enough work for any man, let alone the parliamentary duties which Brough was called on to perform, and the seventy...

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...f gold That only death unbinds: “You will go no more to balls or gay assemblies; You must stay at home While we shall go. “Have you th... ...s legal, is strong; and Vinet’s strength lay there. This future athlete of parliamentary debate, who was des- tined to share in proclaiming the dynast...