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... popular government are equally likely to find in the present treatise materials suited to their wishes ; and in many cases , if I may judge from what has befallen some of my predecessors , they will draw from these materials conclusions ...
... popular government are equally likely to find in the present treatise materials suited to their wishes ; and in many cases , if I may judge from what has befallen some of my predecessors , they will draw from these materials conclusions ...
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... popular verdict had not been invented . The question was referred to conventions in the several States . ventions were composed of able men , who listened to weighty arguments , and were themselves influenced by the authority of their ...
... popular verdict had not been invented . The question was referred to conventions in the several States . ventions were composed of able men , who listened to weighty arguments , and were themselves influenced by the authority of their ...
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... popular vote over the whole country would have raised a dangerous excitement , and would have given too much encouragement to candidates of merely popular gifts . To have entrusted it to Con- gress would have not only subjected the ...
... popular vote over the whole country would have raised a dangerous excitement , and would have given too much encouragement to candidates of merely popular gifts . To have entrusted it to Con- gress would have not only subjected the ...
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... popular vote . Let us see how this happened . In the first two presidential elections ( in 1789 and 1792 ) the independence of the electors did not come into question , because everybody was for Washington , and parties had not yet been ...
... popular vote . Let us see how this happened . In the first two presidential elections ( in 1789 and 1792 ) the independence of the electors did not come into question , because everybody was for Washington , and parties had not yet been ...
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... popular election now rules everywhere.2 In some States the electors were for a time chosen by districts , like members of the House of Repre- sentatives . But the plan of choice by a single popular vote over the whole of the State found ...
... popular election now rules everywhere.2 In some States the electors were for a time chosen by districts , like members of the House of Repre- sentatives . But the plan of choice by a single popular vote over the whole of the State found ...
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