Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character, Characteristics, Habits, and Manners, Volume 2 |
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... Legislature " is also used . For some uncertain reason the Connecticut Charter of 1662 and the Rhode Island Charter of 1663 spoke of the " general meeting , or Assembly , " and " Assembly " proved more suited than " Court " to the ...
... Legislature " is also used . For some uncertain reason the Connecticut Charter of 1662 and the Rhode Island Charter of 1663 spoke of the " general meeting , or Assembly , " and " Assembly " proved more suited than " Court " to the ...
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... legislature is as necessary to good government as a single executive . It is not enough that your legislature should be numerous ; it should also be divideds Numbers alone are not a sufficient barrier against the impulses of passion ...
... legislature is as necessary to good government as a single executive . It is not enough that your legislature should be numerous ; it should also be divideds Numbers alone are not a sufficient barrier against the impulses of passion ...
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... legislature , for want of the assistance of some more intelligent members who had been packed into the other , occasion many debates , con- ' ducted with much asperity , which could not be settled but by an expensive general appeal to ...
... legislature , for want of the assistance of some more intelligent members who had been packed into the other , occasion many debates , con- ' ducted with much asperity , which could not be settled but by an expensive general appeal to ...
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... Legislature at ninety instead of sixty days . " In his inaugural message of January , 1917 , he repeated this belief . In 1914 a proposal for a single legislative body with forty members passed each House in California , but could not ...
... Legislature at ninety instead of sixty days . " In his inaugural message of January , 1917 , he repeated this belief . In 1914 a proposal for a single legislative body with forty members passed each House in California , but could not ...
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... Legislature . It has no power to make laws , but merely to pass ordinances upon such local matters as the Legislature may commit to its charge , and subject to the para- mount control of the Legislature . " The mistakes of a city ...
... Legislature . It has no power to make laws , but merely to pass ordinances upon such local matters as the Legislature may commit to its charge , and subject to the para- mount control of the Legislature . " The mistakes of a city ...
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Page 593 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 593 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 476 - ... any false scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 349 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 249 - And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the care .of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions...
Page 109 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Page 38 - a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous.
Page 82 - The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Page 76 - Society, must be an Effect of the Protection afforded to it by the joint Strength of the Society, in the Execution of its Laws. Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing...
Page 239 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.