The Lesson of Popular Government, Volumen1Macmillan, 1899 - 590 páginas |
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... measure gratuitous , seem to be both just and expedient . Nor do these conditions exclude such moderate poll tax as any man not actually in circum- stances of destitution should be willing to pay for the privileges of citizenship . The ...
... measure gratuitous , seem to be both just and expedient . Nor do these conditions exclude such moderate poll tax as any man not actually in circum- stances of destitution should be willing to pay for the privileges of citizenship . The ...
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... measure intended to diminish the happiness of the majority of the citizens . Philip II . of Spain was probably as conscientious a legislator as ever lived , which did not prevent him from ranking almost with Genghis Khan as a scourge of ...
... measure intended to diminish the happiness of the majority of the citizens . Philip II . of Spain was probably as conscientious a legislator as ever lived , which did not prevent him from ranking almost with Genghis Khan as a scourge of ...
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... measures of the reformed Parliament of 1832 was the voting of one hundred millions of dollars to buy out slavery in Jamaica , which was shortly after followed by its abolition throughout the British dominions and the most earnest ...
... measures of the reformed Parliament of 1832 was the voting of one hundred millions of dollars to buy out slavery in Jamaica , which was shortly after followed by its abolition throughout the British dominions and the most earnest ...
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... measures , both as to the desirableness of the ends proposed and as to the fitness of the measures for obtaining those ends , and are expected to contribute by election one out of a consid- erable number of units , sufficient to make up ...
... measures , both as to the desirableness of the ends proposed and as to the fitness of the measures for obtaining those ends , and are expected to contribute by election one out of a consid- erable number of units , sufficient to make up ...
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... measures , and in fact those which seem most obviously suited to the purpose are often found to cause more evil than they remove . In the case of an individual , however , high character and intellectual ability are much more ...
... measures , and in fact those which seem most obviously suited to the purpose are often found to cause more evil than they remove . In the case of an individual , however , high character and intellectual ability are much more ...
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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.