Herbert Butterfield by Kenneth McIntyre

Author:Kenneth McIntyre [McIntyre, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Historical
ISBN: 9781497636316
Google: OE86AwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-08T01:42:41+00:00

1. “there is much to be thankful for in the British constitution . . . and this must not be jeopardized in order to forestall purely hypothetical dangers or to hurry unduly the achievement of a remote, precarious or purely speculative good”;

2. “abuses are to be reformed . . . but their removal is to be postponed if it would involve a great tear in the social fabric, or if it would provoke vested interests to desperate measures”;

3. “beneficent legislation . . . might have to be suspended or delayed for a shorter or longer period, if its immediate achievement would divide the country too sharply and embitter political life at the next stage of the story; or if its enactment or its execution would entail too great an exercise of power.”55

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