Readings on American State GovernmentPaul Samuel Reinsch Ginn and Company, 1911 - 473 страница |
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... individual interests , the greater is the necessity that this power should be restrained by such official responsibility as will keep it well within the control of the people and make every administrative officer answerable to them ...
... individual interests , the greater is the necessity that this power should be restrained by such official responsibility as will keep it well within the control of the people and make every administrative officer answerable to them ...
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... individual judgment . Least of all does it signify a hankering for a dicta- tor or despot . Before the elections of 1849 in France an intelligent Frenchman told Nassau Senior that many farmers and peasants , and especially women , were ...
... individual judgment . Least of all does it signify a hankering for a dicta- tor or despot . Before the elections of 1849 in France an intelligent Frenchman told Nassau Senior that many farmers and peasants , and especially women , were ...
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... individual critic , that we ever heard of is that of the old gentleman at Washington who said that he liked to have the President interfere in behalf of what he himself wanted , but was ready to have impeachment proceedings begun when ...
... individual critic , that we ever heard of is that of the old gentleman at Washington who said that he liked to have the President interfere in behalf of what he himself wanted , but was ready to have impeachment proceedings begun when ...
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... individual , but it is an outrage inflicted upon the people at large . It were far better if the executive would blazon over his door , Let the law take its course , though the heavens fall , " than that he should , out of १ ९ ...
... individual , but it is an outrage inflicted upon the people at large . It were far better if the executive would blazon over his door , Let the law take its course , though the heavens fall , " than that he should , out of १ ९ ...
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... individual were given the right to put out of the way every person that he thinks is not a good citizen , no man's life would be safe . The only safe test is to enforce every law upon the statute books . If the law is a bad law , the ...
... individual were given the right to put out of the way every person that he thinks is not a good citizen , no man's life would be safe . The only safe test is to enforce every law upon the statute books . If the law is a bad law , the ...
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Страница 267 - ... to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Страница 435 - Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and amend the same...
Страница 115 - The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number.
Страница 453 - Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the Legislative Assembly...
Страница 132 - The former naturally desire to obtain as much labor as possible from their employees, while the latter are often induced by the fear of discharge to conform to regulations which their judgment, fairly exercised, would pronounce to be detrimental to their health or strength. In other words, the proprietors lay down the rules and the laborers are practically constrained to obey them. In such cases self-interest is often an unsafe guide, and the legislature may properly interpose its authority.
Страница 330 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Страница 96 - States providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, and that we urge our senators and representative to use their best endeavors to secure such amendment.
Страница 263 - All rights tend to declare themselves absolute to their logical extreme. Yet all in fact are limited by the neighborhood of principles of policy which are other than those on which the particular right is founded, and which become strong enough to hold their own when a certain point is reached.
Страница 110 - An amount equal to the amount obtained by multiplying three cents by the total number of votes cast at the last general election for all candidates for the office which the candidate seeks...
Страница 134 - ... the law is, to a certain extent, a progressive science; that in some of the States methods of procedure which, at the time the Constitution was adopted, were deemed essential to the protection and safety of the people, or to the liberty of the citizen, have been found to be no longer necessary; that restrictions which had formerly been laid upon the conduct of individuals, or of classes of individuals, had proved detrimental to their interests, while, upon the other hand, certain other classes...