An Introduction to the Problem of GovernmentDoubleday, Page, 1921 - 545 pages |
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... Chamber of Deputies must be based on universal suffrage , the Constitution is silent with regard to elections . 2See Rogers , " Presidential Inability , " The Review , Vol . II . p . 481 ( May 8 , 1920 ) . " Over three hundred different ...
... Chamber of Deputies must be based on universal suffrage , the Constitution is silent with regard to elections . 2See Rogers , " Presidential Inability , " The Review , Vol . II . p . 481 ( May 8 , 1920 ) . " Over three hundred different ...
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... chambers , the chambers received their policies from the executive . At the same time the cham- bers were not able to hold the executive politically respon- sible for their acts . Considerable friction thus developed between the two ...
... chambers , the chambers received their policies from the executive . At the same time the cham- bers were not able to hold the executive politically respon- sible for their acts . Considerable friction thus developed between the two ...
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... chambers , separated by an interval of at least twenty - one days between the two votes . In the German Empire the conditions for a formal constitutional amendment differed from those for ordinary legislation only by the fact that ...
... chambers , separated by an interval of at least twenty - one days between the two votes . In the German Empire the conditions for a formal constitutional amendment differed from those for ordinary legislation only by the fact that ...
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... chambers . It will also be found that not only in some States , as , for example , in Prussia , was the electorate for the ... chamber . The written constitutions adopted in the United States , France , Switzerland , and Belgium , are ...
... chambers . It will also be found that not only in some States , as , for example , in Prussia , was the electorate for the ... chamber . The written constitutions adopted in the United States , France , Switzerland , and Belgium , are ...
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... chambers . In Switzerland amendments may be proposed by the Parliament , but for adoption must be referred to a direct vote of the people . It is , however , especially in the United States that there has been a refusal to recognize the ...
... chambers . In Switzerland amendments may be proposed by the Parliament , but for adoption must be referred to a direct vote of the people . It is , however , especially in the United States that there has been a refusal to recognize the ...
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Page 68 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 145 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 113 - It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.
Page 392 - The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.
Page 127 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 210 - For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself.
Page 464 - The entire strength of the nation may be used to enforce in any part of the land the full and free exercise of all national powers and the security of all rights entrusted by the Constitution to its care. The strong arm of the national government may be put forth to brush away all obstructions to the freedom of interstate commerce or the transportation of the mails.
Page 63 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 288 - It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or pass any Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill for the Appropriation of any Part of the Public Revenue, or of any Tax or *New Section S!A added by 1915 Amendment.
Page 39 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is selfprotection; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.