Edinburgh Review, Vol. 61
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Excerpt from Edinburgh Review, Vol. 61: Or Critical Journal; For April, ...July, 1835; To Be Continued Quarterly There are few subjects on which more erroneous notions have been spread by ingenious and zealous men of various shades of opinion, than the Theory of the British Constitution. While it has been represented by some as an exquisite piece of mechanism, in which the movements were made regular and safe by a curious combination of parts, and by a system of mutual checks and balances - other reasoners have denied it all merit of this kind, and, maintaining that no equipoised system can exist because a perfect equilibrium must be followed by absolute inaction, have contended that the whole functions of the government would be at once suspended, unless the theory were corrected in practice, and one power overwhelmed all the rest. The main error of the former class has consisted in regarding too nicely the speculative views of the subject, suffering themselves to be dazzled by the idea of symmetry, and allowing metaphorical expressions to usurp the place of argument, and to influence their reasoning. The other class have fallen into an equal mistake, by confining their attention to the theoretical consequences of the speculative or ideal account given by the panegyrists of the system, and by not observing how the same matters of fact which those panegyrists overlooked in their zeal to praise, made the system work well, and work well according to the principles of the theory, while they certainly impaired the symmetry so greatly vaunted. For it is undoubtedly true, though a truth overlooked by both parties, that the constitution works well in practice only by working according to its principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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