THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
r--ITS STKKXt.TU AND ITS WEAKNIyiS. By Cable.—Plena Association.—Cop> I iglll Received October 2S, III..) |i.m. Ottawa, October 2tf. Sir Wilfrid Under, at Moutie.il. 11l a brilliant address upon the British <oislitution, declared that it was more democratic, elastic, anil responsive to publie needs than the American. Oue |ioint wherein America was superior was that, it \vtw n federated union, whereas the
Hritish wns a legislative union. Exporierne had shown that the federated unioi was the most potent instrument for unity, despite the ethnological and geographical divisions. It was astonishing , I hut the lute Hon. Willi mi Iv.v.ir! Hailstone did not hit on the federated principle as a remedy for tile Irish <|iic«tii,i. The British Parliament wu. nov ove I loaded with petty detail-,, but p rhaps lat some time tile federated pii iciple I would be applied to England, Scotland land Jrehind, in a new constitution/(or I the Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 226, 29 October 1909, Page 2
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152THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 226, 29 October 1909, Page 2
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