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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... sense of duty , an abiding fondness for animals and a preference for life's less complicated pleasures . Who knows what instinct was at work when the wives of striking coal - miners decided to by - pass what they thought to be a callous ...
... sense of duty , an abiding fondness for animals and a preference for life's less complicated pleasures . Who knows what instinct was at work when the wives of striking coal - miners decided to by - pass what they thought to be a callous ...
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... sense of the monarchic principle . It kept having to be reinvented by force , and needed repeated infusions from already etiolated European main- land princelings . Even after the Hanoverians achieved grudging acceptance , which they ...
... sense of the monarchic principle . It kept having to be reinvented by force , and needed repeated infusions from already etiolated European main- land princelings . Even after the Hanoverians achieved grudging acceptance , which they ...
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... senses of the word . But its implications were less so . At least Hobbes and Locke could ply their trade in the relatively sane interlude between the slavishness of divine right and the prestidigitation of Bagehot and his emulators . 36.
... senses of the word . But its implications were less so . At least Hobbes and Locke could ply their trade in the relatively sane interlude between the slavishness of divine right and the prestidigitation of Bagehot and his emulators . 36.
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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