Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the ConstitutionPrinceton University Press, 1913 - 83 lappuses |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 16.
11. lappuse
... proposals are made to change these institutions there are certain general consider- ations which should be observed . The first consideration is that free govern- ment is impossible except through prescribed and established governmental ...
... proposals are made to change these institutions there are certain general consider- ations which should be observed . The first consideration is that free govern- ment is impossible except through prescribed and established governmental ...
12. lappuse
... really execute their will through care- fully devised institutions in which they gave their chief executive very little power indeed . We should , therefore , reject every proposal which involves 12 EXPERIMENTS AND ESSENTIALS.
... really execute their will through care- fully devised institutions in which they gave their chief executive very little power indeed . We should , therefore , reject every proposal which involves 12 EXPERIMENTS AND ESSENTIALS.
13. lappuse
Elihu Root. We should , therefore , reject every proposal which involves the idea that the people can rule merely by voting , or merely by voting and hav- ing one man or group of men to execute their will . A second consideration is that ...
Elihu Root. We should , therefore , reject every proposal which involves the idea that the people can rule merely by voting , or merely by voting and hav- ing one man or group of men to execute their will . A second consideration is that ...
24. lappuse
... proposed by a specified number or proportion of the electors . The Compulsory Referendum ; that is to say , a requirement that under certain conditions laws that have been agreed upon by a legis- lative body shall be referred to a ...
... proposed by a specified number or proportion of the electors . The Compulsory Referendum ; that is to say , a requirement that under certain conditions laws that have been agreed upon by a legis- lative body shall be referred to a ...
31. lappuse
... proposal of the Initiative and Referendum is commendable . I do not think that these expedients will prove wise or suc- cessful ways of curing these evils for reasons which I will presently indicate ; but it is not necessary to assume ...
... proposal of the Initiative and Referendum is commendable . I do not think that these expedients will prove wise or suc- cessful ways of curing these evils for reasons which I will presently indicate ; but it is not necessary to assume ...
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abandoned Anglo-Saxon authority Bill of Rights body century character civil Compulsory Referendum consideration consti constitutional limitation courts cured Declaration Declaration of Independence despotism election electors ELIHU ROOT enforce established executive exer exercise exist EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT Federal Fourteenth Amendment governmental institutions Habeas Corpus Hague Conferences inalienable independent individual citizen individual liberty Initiative and Referendum interfere ject judges judgment Judicial Decisions judicial power lative legislative act legislative power legislature limi majority ment methods necessary number or proportion observed offi officers official power organization political ideas Popular Review popular vote power of government prescribed preservation PRINCETON UNIVERSITY proposed protection provisions pursuit of happiness question reform relation representative government right of individual rules of action rules of conduct secure self-government social specified number STAFFORD LITTLE LECTURES statutes superior system of government true UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON unpopular violate the constitution voters
Populāri fragmenti
80. lappuse - Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. .One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what can not be directly overthrown.
80. lappuse - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
65. lappuse - ... there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
59. lappuse - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
65. lappuse - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
65. lappuse - If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable. 'Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions, contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant...
81. lappuse - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember, that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country...
65. lappuse - The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
64. lappuse - It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
68. lappuse - Upon the receipt of such petition it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to submit the question at the first general election held after the meeting of the board at which the petitions were presented, or at a special election called for that purpose. The question shall be submitted on a separate ballot printed in the following form: "County agricultural agent, YES"; "County agricultural agent, NO.