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... necessary to say to which class the present work belongs . More than thirty years ago , in studies con- nected mainly with financial questions , my attention was attracted towards certain peculiarities in the political working of our ...
... necessary to say to which class the present work belongs . More than thirty years ago , in studies con- nected mainly with financial questions , my attention was attracted towards certain peculiarities in the political working of our ...
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... necessary to disclaim enthusiasm for pop- ular or any other form of government . There need be no hesitation in confessing such enthusiasm - not , indeed , on the ground imputed by Sir Henry Maine to the advo- cates of popular ...
... necessary to disclaim enthusiasm for pop- ular or any other form of government . There need be no hesitation in confessing such enthusiasm - not , indeed , on the ground imputed by Sir Henry Maine to the advo- cates of popular ...
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... necessary . The present contention is , that , so far as popular government has failed , the main cause has been in defective machinery , so that public opinion is brought to bear either not at all or so imperfectly that what is assumed ...
... necessary . The present contention is , that , so far as popular government has failed , the main cause has been in defective machinery , so that public opinion is brought to bear either not at all or so imperfectly that what is assumed ...
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... necessary , because otherwise it cannot be held responsible . The legislature may , indeed , lay down general lines upon which appoint- ments to office shall be made , but as soon as it undertakes to interfere peremptorily and beyond ...
... necessary , because otherwise it cannot be held responsible . The legislature may , indeed , lay down general lines upon which appoint- ments to office shall be made , but as soon as it undertakes to interfere peremptorily and beyond ...
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... necessary that its representatives should be in contact with the legislature , and have at least the same right of speech as the members of that body . That conception of the separation of executive and legislative which excludes this ...
... necessary that its representatives should be in contact with the legislature , and have at least the same right of speech as the members of that body . That conception of the separation of executive and legislative which excludes this ...
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Page 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...
Page 382 - A respect for truth, however, obliges us to remark that they seem never for a moment to have turned their eyes from the danger to liberty from the overgrown and all-grasping 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.
Page 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.
Page 512 - 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.
Page 406 - 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.
Page 513 - When such a 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...
Page 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.
Page 382 - The Legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Page 382 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Page 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.