Securing the Blessings of Liberty: The Constitutional System"Footnotes": p. 168-173. |
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... greater personal prestige than members of the more numerous lower legislative branch and thereby balance more effec- tively the personal influence of the chief executive . A few years later Jefferson criticized these arrangements as not ...
... greater personal prestige than members of the more numerous lower legislative branch and thereby balance more effec- tively the personal influence of the chief executive . A few years later Jefferson criticized these arrangements as not ...
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... greater prestige and perhaps also greater authority . But the Congress was unwilling to abolish the undemocratic and inefficient seniority system for selecting committee chairmen or to put necessary limits on their powers or on ob ...
... greater prestige and perhaps also greater authority . But the Congress was unwilling to abolish the undemocratic and inefficient seniority system for selecting committee chairmen or to put necessary limits on their powers or on ob ...
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... greater vitality into the privileges and immunities of citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was unhap- pily lost . Justice Jackson referred to this memorable debate between distinguished members of the Supreme Court in his ...
... greater vitality into the privileges and immunities of citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was unhap- pily lost . Justice Jackson referred to this memorable debate between distinguished members of the Supreme Court in his ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO THE REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES | 19 |
CHAPTER THREE TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION | 39 |
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