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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... what Edmund Wilson , writing in 1945 , termed our national weakness for ' the False Issue ' : This is best handled in the tone of light ridicule . They acquire the technique so early that I think they must be trained in it at Oxford . If 9.
... what Edmund Wilson , writing in 1945 , termed our national weakness for ' the False Issue ' : This is best handled in the tone of light ridicule . They acquire the technique so early that I think they must be trained in it at Oxford . If 9.
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... False Issue one normally encounters is the claim that it has ' no real power ' . One never quite knows what ' real ' is intended to mean here , but the conventions of the False Issue lead one to guess that the word is doing duty for ...
... False Issue one normally encounters is the claim that it has ' no real power ' . One never quite knows what ' real ' is intended to mean here , but the conventions of the False Issue lead one to guess that the word is doing duty for ...
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... false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and ca- pricious presidents ) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea . But even in the most corrupted period of 1970s America it was found simple enough as a scheme , and as a ...
... false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and ca- pricious presidents ) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea . But even in the most corrupted period of 1970s America it was found simple enough as a scheme , and as a ...
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