The Lesson of Popular Government, Volumen1Macmillan, 1899 - 590 páginas |
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... Lords is no doubt a dignified and venerable institution , but if the average permanent welfare of the whole population of Great Britain could thereby be raised in even a small frac- tional degree , it might be permitted to regard the ...
... Lords is no doubt a dignified and venerable institution , but if the average permanent welfare of the whole population of Great Britain could thereby be raised in even a small frac- tional degree , it might be permitted to regard the ...
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... Lord Ashley , afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury , brought up in Parliament the subject of education , and showed that besides children educated at the cost of individuals , societies , and churches , there were still 1,014 , - 193 children ...
... Lord Ashley , afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury , brought up in Parliament the subject of education , and showed that besides children educated at the cost of individuals , societies , and churches , there were still 1,014 , - 193 children ...
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... Lord Gray , but rejected by a vote of 211 to 206. The object was to replace , by secret ballot , the open voting in which the vote of every tenant and laborer was known to his landlord or employer . After discussion at intervals this ...
... Lord Gray , but rejected by a vote of 211 to 206. The object was to replace , by secret ballot , the open voting in which the vote of every tenant and laborer was known to his landlord or employer . After discussion at intervals this ...
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... lords surrounded themselves with bodies . of retainers , who received from them land and protection in return for military service . Order was thus secured within a limited jurisdiction , but the great lords fortified themselves in ...
... lords surrounded themselves with bodies . of retainers , who received from them land and protection in return for military service . Order was thus secured within a limited jurisdiction , but the great lords fortified themselves in ...
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... Lords , its own members , and the people . Their own will was the only law which they were prepared to recognize . They early displayed a determination to deny the Lords their lawful rights of legislation . Nor would they allow debates ...
... Lords , its own members , and the people . Their own will was the only law which they were prepared to recognize . They early displayed a determination to deny the Lords their lawful rights of legislation . Nor would they allow debates ...
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Página 56 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 384 - ... seem never for a moment to have turned their eyes from the danger to liberty from the overgrown and allgrasping prerogative of an hereditary magistrate, supported and fortified by an hereditary branch of the legislative authority. They seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.
Página 92 - A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state.
Página 408 - The house of assembly shall not originate or pass any vote, resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or of any tax or impost to any purpose unless such appropriation has been recommended by message from the governor-general during the session in which such vote, resolution, address, or bill is proposed.
Página 515 - When such report is made and accepted it will in my opinion be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Página 46 - Experience had proved a tendency in our governments to throw all power into the Legislative vortex. The Executives of the States are in general little more than Cyphers; the legislatures omnipotent. If no effectual check be devised for restraining the instability and encroachments of the latter, a revolution of some kind or other would be inevitable.
Página 83 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Página 514 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Página 54 - Acts were accordingly passed, obliging every Yankee sloop which came down through Hell Gate, and every Jersey market boat which was rowed across from Paulus Hook to Cortlandt Street, to pay entrance fees and obtain clearances at the...
Página 498 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.