The American Commonwealth -Cosimo, Inc., 1. 11. 2007. - 740 страница First published in 1888, The American Commonwealth was an instant classic, a three-volume set discussing the political structure of American society, its legal system, and its people with an analysis that is both broad and in-depth. Volume I covers the Constitution and the American political system. It discusses the structure of American government and the ways in which the living American government as an entity responds to crisis. The possibilities and power struggles inherent in the American system of government are examined and documented with a fair hand. Bryce goes into further detail about state constitutions and the differing legal structures that exist on a more local level. Anyone with an interest in politics or American history will find Bryce's commentary penetratingly insightful. British historian VISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE (1838-1922) attended the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford. He is best known for his scholarship of the Holy Roman Empire. His popular works include Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901) and Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903). |
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... term United States - America is a Commonwealth of commonwealths , a Republic of republics , a State which , while one , is nevertheless composed of other States even more essen- tial to its existence than it is to theirs . This is a ...
... term United States - America is a Commonwealth of commonwealths , a Republic of republics , a State which , while one , is nevertheless composed of other States even more essen- tial to its existence than it is to theirs . This is a ...
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... term , but also by diminishing the power which they left to him ; and this they did by setting up another authority to which they entrusted certain executive functions , making its consent necessary to the validity of certain classes of ...
... term , but also by diminishing the power which they left to him ; and this they did by setting up another authority to which they entrusted certain executive functions , making its consent necessary to the validity of certain classes of ...
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... term he absolutely refused to serve a third , urging the risk to republican institutions of suffering the same man ... terms . After them no President was re - elected , except Lincoln , down to General Grant . Grant was President from ...
... term he absolutely refused to serve a third , urging the risk to republican institutions of suffering the same man ... terms . After them no President was re - elected , except Lincoln , down to General Grant . Grant was President from ...
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... term . Had there not been among the Republicans themselves a sec- tion personally hostile to Grant , or rather to those who surrounded him , the attempt might have succeeded , though it would probably have involved defeat at the polls ...
... term . Had there not been among the Republicans themselves a sec- tion personally hostile to Grant , or rather to those who surrounded him , the attempt might have succeeded , though it would probably have involved defeat at the polls ...
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... term of office only by means of impeachment , a procedure familiar on both sides of the Atlantic in 1787 , when the famous trial of Warren Hast- ings was still lingering on at Westminster . Impeachment , which had played no small part ...
... term of office only by means of impeachment , a procedure familiar on both sides of the Atlantic in 1787 , when the famous trial of Warren Hast- ings was still lingering on at Westminster . Impeachment , which had played no small part ...
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GROWth and DeveLOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION | 359 |
THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION | 364 |
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION | 372 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION BY USAGE | 391 |
THE RESULTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 400 |
THE STATE GOVERNMENTS | 409 |
NATURE OF THE AMERICAN STATE | 411 |
STATE CONSTITUTIONS | 427 |
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THE HOUSE AT WORK | 142 |
THE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS | 154 |
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION | 165 |
CONGRESSIONAL FINANCE | 174 |
THE RELATIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES | 183 |
CHAP PAGE XIX GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON CONGRESS | 189 |
THE RELATIONS OF CONGRESS TO THE PRESIDENT | 208 |
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE EXECUTIVE | 215 |
THE FEDERAL COURTS | 228 |
THE COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION | 241 |
THE WORKING OF THE COURTS | 261 |
COMPARISON OF THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SYSTEMS | 277 |
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE FRAME OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | 298 |
THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 312 |
Working RelaTIONS OF THE NATIONAL AND THE STATE GOVERNMENTS | 325 |
CRITICISM OF THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 342 |
MERITS OF THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 350 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE CONSTITUTIONS | 450 |
DIRECT LEGISLATION BY THE PEOPLE | 463 |
STATE LEGISLATURES | 477 |
THE STATE EXECUTIVE | 494 |
THE STATE JUDICIARY | 501 |
STATE FINANCE | 512 |
THE WORKING OF STATE GOVERNMENTS | 528 |
XLV REMEDIES FOR THE FAULTS OF STATE GOVERNMENTS | 549 |
STATE POLITICS | 565 |
THE TERRITORIES | 578 |
LOCAL GOVERNMENT | 589 |
OBSERVATIONS ON RURAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT | 611 |
THE GOVERNMENT OF CITIES | 622 |
THE WORKING OF CITY GOVERNMENTS | 635 |
AN AMERICAN VIEW OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES | 650 |
ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS | 667 |
EXTRACTS FROM THE RULES OF THE SENATE | 673 |
THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES | 682 |
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 178188 | 690 |
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES | 697 |
EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALI | 711 |
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