The Lesson of Popular Government, Volumen1Macmillan, 1899 - 590 páginas |
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... head of such an assemblage of enslaved tribes is to effect the conquest or the dissolution of the whole mass , and hence the history of Eastern peo- ples has been characterized by sudden and gigantic revolutions . The second method of ...
... head of such an assemblage of enslaved tribes is to effect the conquest or the dissolution of the whole mass , and hence the history of Eastern peo- ples has been characterized by sudden and gigantic revolutions . The second method of ...
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... head of crime . Some restrictions also as to length of residence , whether in the country , state , district , or town , or more strictly under one roof , seem not unreasonable whether as to voting or naturalization . Moderate ...
... head of crime . Some restrictions also as to length of residence , whether in the country , state , district , or town , or more strictly under one roof , seem not unreasonable whether as to voting or naturalization . Moderate ...
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... head , and gives them a vote apiece without asking them whether or not they have the sense to use it , - or in that which recognizes the inherent differences between man and man , gives the preponderance of power to character and ...
... head , and gives them a vote apiece without asking them whether or not they have the sense to use it , - or in that which recognizes the inherent differences between man and man , gives the preponderance of power to character and ...
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... head that Democracy is only a form of government , has a right to be somewhat surprised at the feelings which the advent of Democracy excites . The principle of Democracy is that the people choose their rulers instead of being governed ...
... head that Democracy is only a form of government , has a right to be somewhat surprised at the feelings which the advent of Democracy excites . The principle of Democracy is that the people choose their rulers instead of being governed ...
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... head , surrounded by a staff of his own selection , appointed and removed at his pleasure , one man being at the head of each department ; all subordinates to be ap- pointed by the heads of departments , subject to their responsibility ...
... head , surrounded by a staff of his own selection , appointed and removed at his pleasure , one man being at the head of each department ; all subordinates to be ap- pointed by the heads of departments , subject to their responsibility ...
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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.