An Introduction to the Problem of GovernmentDoubleday, Page, 1921 - 545 pages |
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... majority , or of an ascertainable class of persons , is , by the strength of such a majority or class , made to prevail against any of their number who oppose it.2 Ihering defines the State as " the form of a regulated and assured ...
... majority , or of an ascertainable class of persons , is , by the strength of such a majority or class , made to prevail against any of their number who oppose it.2 Ihering defines the State as " the form of a regulated and assured ...
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... majority whose destinies he may so largely shape ; and , indeed , the position of the English Civil - servant has been defined as that of a man who has exchanged dignity for power . " Compare the following from Burke ( The Present ...
... majority whose destinies he may so largely shape ; and , indeed , the position of the English Civil - servant has been defined as that of a man who has exchanged dignity for power . " Compare the following from Burke ( The Present ...
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... majority of a people who have not the actual control of their government , have a desire for political unity other than that which is realized under the existing state organi- zation . They may desire to divide into separate political ...
... majority of a people who have not the actual control of their government , have a desire for political unity other than that which is realized under the existing state organi- zation . They may desire to divide into separate political ...
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... majority party of its own body . In France , also , there has been established a close work- ing relation between the executive and the legislature . The cabinet system which secures this result does not work , however , as smoothly in ...
... majority party of its own body . In France , also , there has been established a close work- ing relation between the executive and the legislature . The cabinet system which secures this result does not work , however , as smoothly in ...
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... Majority Rule and the Judiciary . ' Holcombe , State Government in the United States , Chap . XI . Validity of administra- tive acts Protection against Executive Methods of judicial control Non - su- CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 75.
... Majority Rule and the Judiciary . ' Holcombe , State Government in the United States , Chap . XI . Validity of administra- tive acts Protection against Executive Methods of judicial control Non - su- CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 75.
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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.