The MonarchyChatto & Windus, 1990 - 42 síður Part of a series, this book submits a proposal for the admission of republican principles into the national debate. The author examines the Royals as a national fetish that encourages servile but also snobbish attitudes. He calls for constitutional and political reform. |
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... preferable to the caprices of presidential government . 5. The Royal Family is a guarantee of the national ' identity ' . If we take these in order , we find a thicket of tautology and contradiction . Argument ( 1 ) is congruent with ...
... preferable to the caprices of presidential government . 5. The Royal Family is a guarantee of the national ' identity ' . If we take these in order , we find a thicket of tautology and contradiction . Argument ( 1 ) is congruent with ...
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... Preferable , possibly . Irrelevant , hardly . Or we may consult the most recent and most in- formed study of the career of Harold Macmillan . After a disastrous war on Egypt which he had strongly urged upon the Cabinet , Macmillan found ...
... Preferable , possibly . Irrelevant , hardly . Or we may consult the most recent and most in- formed study of the career of Harold Macmillan . After a disastrous war on Egypt which he had strongly urged upon the Cabinet , Macmillan found ...
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... preferable to the cap- rices of presidential government How easy it is to see the ground of this point . The United States , for example , has never had a President quite as bad as King George III , but neither has Britain had a king as ...
... preferable to the cap- rices of presidential government How easy it is to see the ground of this point . The United States , for example , has never had a President quite as bad as King George III , but neither has Britain had a king as ...
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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