Palace of CrystalCurrent affairs and peace politics: the dangers of charismatic leaders to democracy and the peace of the world, and how peace might be achieved for the longer term. |
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... Commons and even of the judiciary.* (* Note for example the recent (20th December 2005) case where families of soldiers killed in Iraq who want the prime minister Tony Blair to be held accountable if there was no legal basis for the ...
... Commons and even of the judiciary.* (* Note for example the recent (20th December 2005) case where families of soldiers killed in Iraq who want the prime minister Tony Blair to be held accountable if there was no legal basis for the ...
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... Commons on the very subject of new nuclear weapons in which the defence ministers of all three parties ruminated over the shredded arguments without reference to the fact that they had recently been destroyed, and so no longer existed ...
... Commons on the very subject of new nuclear weapons in which the defence ministers of all three parties ruminated over the shredded arguments without reference to the fact that they had recently been destroyed, and so no longer existed ...
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... monarch's approval. Whether outright monarchies or imperfect democracies, the feeling of government was the same – an imposition from above designed to keep citizens in order. 'With respect to the [British] House of Commons, it is.
... monarch's approval. Whether outright monarchies or imperfect democracies, the feeling of government was the same – an imposition from above designed to keep citizens in order. 'With respect to the [British] House of Commons, it is.
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Harry Davis. 'With respect to the [British] House of Commons, it is elected but by a small part of the Nation; but were the election as universal as taxation, which it ought to be, it would still be only the organ of the Nation, and ...
Harry Davis. 'With respect to the [British] House of Commons, it is elected but by a small part of the Nation; but were the election as universal as taxation, which it ought to be, it would still be only the organ of the Nation, and ...
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... Commons in the Palace. In this, the early proposals were more faithful to the original Athenian democratic model, wherein: Elected officials did not determine decisions – giving decisionmaking power to elected officials was considered ...
... Commons in the Palace. In this, the early proposals were more faithful to the original Athenian democratic model, wherein: Elected officials did not determine decisions – giving decisionmaking power to elected officials was considered ...
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