The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution, Its Origin, Influence and Relation to DemocracyMacmillan, 1907 - 402 من الصفحات |
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... practical politics , the men who founded our state and national gov- ernments were always our equals , and often our masters . " Of one thing we may be reasonably cer- tain the Constitution as adopted did not repre- sent the political ...
... practical politics , the men who founded our state and national gov- ernments were always our equals , and often our masters . " Of one thing we may be reasonably cer- tain the Constitution as adopted did not repre- sent the political ...
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... practical politics " which not infrequently defeat the will of the majority even to - day under universal suffrage . That it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to bring about , if possible , the adoption of a form of ...
... practical politics " which not infrequently defeat the will of the majority even to - day under universal suffrage . That it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to bring about , if possible , the adoption of a form of ...
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... practical amending power - applies , then , with no less force to the Constitution itself . In one respect the Con- stitution is even more rigid than were the Articles of Confederation , since the Congress of the Con- federation was the ...
... practical amending power - applies , then , with no less force to the Constitution itself . In one respect the Con- stitution is even more rigid than were the Articles of Confederation , since the Congress of the Con- federation was the ...
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... practical working by the " self- evident " truths proclaimed in the latter . One of the axioms of political science embodied in the Declaration of Independence was the right of the people to alter or abolish the existing form of gov ...
... practical working by the " self- evident " truths proclaimed in the latter . One of the axioms of political science embodied in the Declaration of Independence was the right of the people to alter or abolish the existing form of gov ...
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... practical argument in favor of this check was doubtless the fact that it required no formal changes in the state constitutions , and , for this reason , was less likely to arouse formi- dable opposition than any avowed attempt to ...
... practical argument in favor of this check was doubtless the fact that it required no formal changes in the state constitutions , and , for this reason , was less likely to arouse formi- dable opposition than any avowed attempt to ...
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الصفحة 177 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
الصفحة 195 - 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 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 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 196 - 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 195 - 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 258 - Any county, city, town, or township may make and enforce within its limits all such local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.
الصفحة 176 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.