The Lesson of Popular Government, Volumen1Macmillan, 1899 - 590 páginas |
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... CCLESI ONY MON Harvard College Library . FROM THE BEQUEST OF OF BOSTON . ( Class of 1830. ) " For books relating to Politics and Fine Arts . " 21 March , 1899 THE LESSON OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT • The ; Θ THE. CHARLES SUMNER , LL.D. ,
... CCLESI ONY MON Harvard College Library . FROM THE BEQUEST OF OF BOSTON . ( Class of 1830. ) " For books relating to Politics and Fine Arts . " 21 March , 1899 THE LESSON OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT • The ; Θ THE. CHARLES SUMNER , LL.D. ,
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... classes The days of June . CHAPTER XII FRANCE . THE SECOND EMPIRE PAGE 215 216 • 219 221 222 226 227 228 231 • • 234 238 Three factions striving for rule • 240 Revival of Napoleon worship 241 Presidential election of 1848 243 · Defeat ...
... classes The days of June . CHAPTER XII FRANCE . THE SECOND EMPIRE PAGE 215 216 • 219 221 222 226 227 228 231 • • 234 238 Three factions striving for rule • 240 Revival of Napoleon worship 241 Presidential election of 1848 243 · Defeat ...
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... classes Beneficial effect of universal suffrage · · • CHAPTER XIX GOVERNMENT BY LEGISLATURE ( Continued ) PAGE · 409 411 · 412 • 415 • 416 · 419 • 420 426 · 429 · 430 Effects upon legislation 432 Initiative open to every member of ...
... classes Beneficial effect of universal suffrage · · • CHAPTER XIX GOVERNMENT BY LEGISLATURE ( Continued ) PAGE · 409 411 · 412 • 415 • 416 · 419 • 420 426 · 429 · 430 Effects upon legislation 432 Initiative open to every member of ...
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... classes . But none of these answer the conditions of what is now known as government by universal suffrage . Athens is supposed to be the typical democracy of antiquity . Yet at a time when Athens had more than half a million of ...
... classes . But none of these answer the conditions of what is now known as government by universal suffrage . Athens is supposed to be the typical democracy of antiquity . Yet at a time when Athens had more than half a million of ...
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... classes of citizens , and the struggle for power was between them and the patricians . The mass of small tradesmen , workmen , and slaves had little to do with the government beyond their power as a mob . To show how modern the system ...
... classes of citizens , and the struggle for power was between them and the patricians . The mass of small tradesmen , workmen , and slaves had little to do with the government beyond their power as a mob . To show how modern the system ...
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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.