The Lesson of Popular Government, Volumen1Macmillan, 1899 - 590 páginas |
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... The outbreak of February 23 , 1848 Guizot resigns Ministry formed under Thiers Abdication and flight of the king Departure of the Duchess of Orleans Causes of failure • CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 Populace of London and xiv CONTENTS.
... The outbreak of February 23 , 1848 Guizot resigns Ministry formed under Thiers Abdication and flight of the king Departure of the Duchess of Orleans Causes of failure • CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 Populace of London and xiv CONTENTS.
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... Causes of the disaster . Moral causes of the insurrection • The Germans at Versailles CHAPTER XIV FRANCE . THE THIRD REPUBLIC The same problem in France and the United States Difficulties of electing an Assembly Assembly at Bordeaux ...
... Causes of the disaster . Moral causes of the insurrection • The Germans at Versailles CHAPTER XIV FRANCE . THE THIRD REPUBLIC The same problem in France and the United States Difficulties of electing an Assembly Assembly at Bordeaux ...
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... Causes of difference of English and French history Executive power in the United States . Presidential election by States • High personal character of Presidents . Why great men are not chosen Limited power of President . Contrary ...
... Causes of difference of English and French history Executive power in the United States . Presidential election by States • High personal character of Presidents . Why great men are not chosen Limited power of President . Contrary ...
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... cause of the other . M. Taine is cer- tainly no friend of the Revolution , but any one who will read his " Ancien Régime " may well feel that the seed of the harvest had been sown broadcast in advance . Again , Germany for the ...
... cause of the other . M. Taine is cer- tainly no friend of the Revolution , but any one who will read his " Ancien Régime " may well feel that the seed of the harvest had been sown broadcast in advance . Again , Germany for the ...
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... cause of strong feeling or aversion . On page 57 , however , all this is changed . There we read that Democracy is simply and solely a form of government . And on page 64- On the whole the dispassionate student of politics , who has ...
... cause of strong feeling or aversion . On page 57 , however , all this is changed . There we read that Democracy is simply and solely a form of government . And on page 64- On the whole the dispassionate student of politics , who has ...
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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.