The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution: Its Origin, Influence and Relation to DemocracyMacmillan, 1907 - 409 من الصفحات |
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... body during the second regular session Congress has power to remedy the evil The committee system a check on the majority The speaker's power to thwart legislation The system encourages log - rolling 186 • 189 191 193 199 200 CHAPTER ...
... body during the second regular session Congress has power to remedy the evil The committee system a check on the majority The speaker's power to thwart legislation The system encourages log - rolling 186 • 189 191 193 199 200 CHAPTER ...
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... body , a new check upon the power of the King appeared . The consent of two separate bodies was now necessary before taxes could be imposed . The development of these checks was hastened by the fact that the King found it easier and ...
... body , a new check upon the power of the King appeared . The consent of two separate bodies was now necessary before taxes could be imposed . The development of these checks was hastened by the fact that the King found it easier and ...
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... classes had deliberated apart and acquired the right to assent to legislation as a separate body , a four - chambered parliament , such as existed in 1 Sweden up to 1866 and still survives in Finland , 7 THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.
... classes had deliberated apart and acquired the right to assent to legislation as a separate body , a four - chambered parliament , such as existed in 1 Sweden up to 1866 and still survives in Finland , 7 THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.
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... the government had the broadest possible basis . If the House of Commons had been a truly popu- lar body in the eighteenth century , that fact would not of itself have made the English government as a 9 THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.
... the government had the broadest possible basis . If the House of Commons had been a truly popu- lar body in the eighteenth century , that fact would not of itself have made the English government as a 9 THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.
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... body in the eighteenth century . In theory , of course , as a part of Parliament it rep- resented the whole English people . But this was a mere political fiction , since by reason of the narrowly limited suffrage , a large part of the ...
... body in the eighteenth century . In theory , of course , as a part of Parliament it rep- resented the whole English people . But this was a mere political fiction , since by reason of the narrowly limited suffrage , a large part of the ...
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الصفحة 203 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
الصفحة 75 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
الصفحة 73 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority...
الصفحة 74 - Some perplexity respecting the rights of the courts to pronounce legislative acts void, because contrary to the Constitution, has arisen from an imagination that the doctrine would imply a superiority of the judiciary to the legislative power. It is urged that the authority which can declare the acts of another void must necessarily be superior to the one whose acts may be declared void.
الصفحة 74 - It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
الصفحة 43 - Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable ; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties ; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
الصفحة 204 - If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society, but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.
الصفحة 203 - Among the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides...
الصفحة 182 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
الصفحة 204 - Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors and those who are debtors fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.