Democracy and Liberty, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 489 páginas |
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... Universal suffrage under the Second Empire . 38 Last days of the Empire The Third Republic Weakness of the President Decline of political ideals Ministerial instability 39 Democracy and the Franco - German War 40 42 42 43 45 The ...
... Universal suffrage under the Second Empire . 38 Last days of the Empire The Third Republic Weakness of the President Decline of political ideals Ministerial instability 39 Democracy and the Franco - German War 40 42 42 43 45 The ...
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... universal suf- frage 273 Repudiated by modern Radicalism - The ' fancy ' fran- chises 276 The Swiss Referendum - Its ... suffrage is naturally conservative Extension of the power of committees 293 294 The American committee system 295 ...
... universal suf- frage 273 Repudiated by modern Radicalism - The ' fancy ' fran- chises 276 The Swiss Referendum - Its ... suffrage is naturally conservative Extension of the power of committees 293 294 The American committee system 295 ...
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... universal military service 309 • Arguments in its defence . 309 . Importance of the question to the English race 312 Arguments against it . 312 Conscription and universal suffrage connected 315 But the military system may come into ...
... universal military service 309 • Arguments in its defence . 309 . Importance of the question to the English race 312 Arguments against it . 312 Conscription and universal suffrage connected 315 But the military system may come into ...
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... universal suffrage . The difference of the political power vested in an individual voter in differ- ent parts of the country was enormously great , and even the House of Commons was only very partially a representative body . About one ...
... universal suffrage . The difference of the political power vested in an individual voter in differ- ent parts of the country was enormously great , and even the House of Commons was only very partially a representative body . About one ...
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... suffrage existed . In some of the Colonies . . freeholders alone were voters ; in others , a very near approach was made to universal suffrage among the males of competent age ; and in others , again , a middle principle was adopted ...
... suffrage existed . In some of the Colonies . . freeholders alone were voters ; in others , a very near approach was made to universal suffrage among the males of competent age ; and in others , again , a middle principle was adopted ...
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Página 19 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows. Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe; Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. Force should be right — or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Página 341 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 19 - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
Página 86 - Neither party has anything definite to say on these issues; neither party has any principles, any distinctive tenets. Both have traditions. Both claim to have tendencies. Both have certainly war cries, organizations, interests enlisted in their support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and policies, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished.
Página 406 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Página 513 - Thus the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according' to their own sense of justice and the State Constitutions ; and the Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith or mode of worship...
Página 116 - Indian court" means any Indian tribal court or court of Indian offense. Indian Rights Sec. 202. No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall — (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Página 403 - Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be altered ' ; and in 1678 they went still further, and resolved ' that all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty in Parliament, are the sole gift of the Commons, and all Bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons, and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint in such Bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants, which...
Página 538 - Observances; but that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the Law; and We do strictly charge and enjoin all those who may be in authority under Us, that they abstain from all interference with the Religious Belief or Worship of any of Our Subjects, on pain of Our highest Displeasure.
Página 69 - The Senate of the Confederate States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen for six years by the Legislature thereof, at the regular session next immediately preceding the commencement of the term of service; and each Senator shall have one vote.