Government by All the People; Or: The Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall as Instruments of DemocracyMacmillan, 1912 - 324 pages |
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... reforms may be accepted and violent changes forestalled , " said Judge Cooley , writ- ing in 1880.1 But this optimistic view is not borne 1 Thomas M. Cooley , " Principles of Constitutional Law , " p . 207 . out by the facts . Only ten ...
... reforms may be accepted and violent changes forestalled , " said Judge Cooley , writ- ing in 1880.1 But this optimistic view is not borne 1 Thomas M. Cooley , " Principles of Constitutional Law , " p . 207 . out by the facts . Only ten ...
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... Reform and the Constitution , " p . 4 . See also Professor J. Allen Smith's " The Spirit of American Govern- ment , " Chap . iv . 3 New Hampshire . thirds vote of the people and in another 1 by DESTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL STABILITY 43.
... Reform and the Constitution , " p . 4 . See also Professor J. Allen Smith's " The Spirit of American Govern- ment , " Chap . iv . 3 New Hampshire . thirds vote of the people and in another 1 by DESTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL STABILITY 43.
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... reforms . In urging the necessity of a radical change in the method of amending the Federal constitution , Pro- fessor Burgess says : " When , in a democratic political 1 Rhode Island . society , the well - matured , long and ...
... reforms . In urging the necessity of a radical change in the method of amending the Federal constitution , Pro- fessor Burgess says : " When , in a democratic political 1 Rhode Island . society , the well - matured , long and ...
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... reform . The theory that legislators represent the people who elected them and continue to maintain a single eye to the pub- lic welfare , knowing no favored class among their con- stituents and wholly unmindful of their own private ...
... reform . The theory that legislators represent the people who elected them and continue to maintain a single eye to the pub- lic welfare , knowing no favored class among their con- stituents and wholly unmindful of their own private ...
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... substitute for the action of legislative bodies , but only as a supplementary and exceptional means of securing fundamental reforms not easily secured through the defective legislative machinery DANGER OF UNSCIENTIFIC LEGISLATION 87.
... substitute for the action of legislative bodies , but only as a supplementary and exceptional means of securing fundamental reforms not easily secured through the defective legislative machinery DANGER OF UNSCIENTIFIC LEGISLATION 87.
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Page 221 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 318 - ... and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters...
Page 54 - 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 self-protection ; 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.
Page 317 - Any initiative or referendum petition may be presented in sections, but each section shall contain a. full and correct copy of the title, and text of the proposed measure.
Page 52 - people" who exercise the power are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised; and the "self-government" spoken of is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest. The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; the people...
Page 316 - ... be submitted to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection, the secretary of state shall submit to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection such...
Page 70 - If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.
Page 315 - ... to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing general election. The legislature may reject any measure so proposed by initiative petition and propose a different...
Page 136 - ... no measure creating or abolishing any office or changing the salary, term or duties of any officer, or granting any franchise or special privilege, or creating any vested right or interest, shall be construed to be an urgency measure.
Page 51 - The notion that the people have no need to limit their power over themselves, might seem axiomatic when popular government was a thing only dreamed about, or read of as having existed at some distant period of the past.