 If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from...  Commentaries on Universal Public Law - Page 252by George Bowyer - 1854 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...relation to the same subject, says : "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...bestow that name on, a government which derives all it* pavers directly or indirectly from the great body of the peofd"." * * ult is essential to such... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...established, we may define a republic о be, or at least may bestow that name on a Government irhich derives all its powers, directly or indirectly, from the great body of the people." * * • • ' 'It is essential to such a Government that it be lerived from the great body oflhe society,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...tory one would ever be found. If we resort for ' a criterion to the different principles on which ' different forms of government are established, we...powers, directly or indirectly, from the great body 1 of the people." According to this definition a Republican Government cannot mean one where one-half... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...used in political disquisitions. If we resort, for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...bestow that name on, a government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 604 pages
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on a govern, ment which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 602 pages
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...administered by persons holding their offices during pica. mire, for a limited period, or during good behaviour," &c. — Federalist, No. 39. Thus his vote... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1868 - 604 pages
...republican theory. '' If," he wrote, '' we report for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on a govern, ment which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body af the people,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1876 - 578 pages
...formal definition of a Republic: — " If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...or at least may bestow that name on, a government whiclt derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 612 pages
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...powers directly or indirectly from the great body »f the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 582 pages
...American government may be said iu general terms to be republican, in that all its powers are derived directly or indirectly from the great body of the...by persons holding their offices during pleasure, or for a limited period or during good behavior. A closer survey and examination of its different departments,... | |
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