India in EnglandS. Ganesan, 1921 - 248 էջ |
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... Constitution to India in August 1917 and the decisions taken at Nagpur , was forged one of the most momentous chains of episodes a country could possibly endure . To use with all reverence the symbolism of the Christian religion , if ...
... Constitution to India in August 1917 and the decisions taken at Nagpur , was forged one of the most momentous chains of episodes a country could possibly endure . To use with all reverence the symbolism of the Christian religion , if ...
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... Constitution of the Committee in effect killed the old British Committee a body which , after all , had had a long and honourable record of devoted and altruistic service to India from the highest and most disinterested motives ...
... Constitution of the Committee in effect killed the old British Committee a body which , after all , had had a long and honourable record of devoted and altruistic service to India from the highest and most disinterested motives ...
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... constitution - for the moment I assume this to be within the British Empire and not the other alternative . At that juncture arises the need , not for appeals to the British , but for education and explanation so that they may ...
... constitution - for the moment I assume this to be within the British Empire and not the other alternative . At that juncture arises the need , not for appeals to the British , but for education and explanation so that they may ...
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... Constitution in India . " This ingenuous admission puts the whole thing in a nutshell . The Washington , or , more correctly , the United States Constitution , and the South African Constitution are Not Washington.
... Constitution in India . " This ingenuous admission puts the whole thing in a nutshell . The Washington , or , more correctly , the United States Constitution , and the South African Constitution are Not Washington.
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Helena Normanton. United States Constitution , and the South African Constitution are each in their not dissimilar ways a noble monument to the constructive genius of mankind applied to political science . The circumstances of their ...
Helena Normanton. United States Constitution , and the South African Constitution are each in their not dissimilar ways a noble monument to the constructive genius of mankind applied to political science . The circumstances of their ...
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Էջ 105 - On the evidence before us there is nothing to show that the outbreak in the Punjab was part of a pre-arranged conspiracy to overthrow the British Government in India by force.
Էջ 105 - Punjab and having averted a rebellion on a scale similar to the Mutiny. It does not, however, appear to us possible to draw this conclusion, particularly in view of the fact that it is not proved that a conspiracy to overthrow British power had been formed prior to the outbreaks.
Էջ 54 - ... charters, or that in any point break or undo them. And that the said curses be twice a year denounced and published by the prelates aforesaid.
Էջ 201 - Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
Էջ 47 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Էջ 111 - In our view this was unfortunately a mistaken conception of his duty. If necessary a crowd that has assembled contrary to a proclamation issued to prevent or terminate disorder may have to be fired upon ; but continued firing upon that crowd cannot be justified because of the eJTect such firing may have upon people in other places.
Էջ 38 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Էջ 145 - some act altogether beyond the power conferred upon him by " law, so that it could never under any state of circumstances have " been his duty to do it, he is responsible according to the " quality of that act ; and even if the doing of that illegal act " was the salvation of the country, that, though it might be a "good ground for -the Legislature afterwards passing an Act of " Indemnity, would be no bar in law to a criminal prosecution ; " that is, if he has done something clearly beyond his power....
Էջ 119 - Nevertheless, after carefully weighing all these factors, we can arrive at no other conclusion than that at Jallianwala Bagh General Dyer acted beyond the necessity of the case, beyond what any reasonable man could have thought to be necessary, and that he did not act with as much humanity as the case permitted.
Էջ 145 - Now this kind of martial law is in England utterly unknown to the constitution. Soldiers may suppress a riot as they may resist an invasion, they may fight rebels just as they may fight foreign enemies, but they have no right under the law to inflict punishment for riot or rebellion.