Considerations on the Choice of Public Rulers: On the Extent of Their Powers; and on the Best Means of Securing the Advantages, and Reforming the Abuses, of Popular Elections |
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... allow the poor- est Roman an equal vote with the richest , in enacting laws , and to be equally eligible to of fices , as had been the constant practice in Rome , from the building of the city until the method of taking the votes by ...
... allow the poor- est Roman an equal vote with the richest , in enacting laws , and to be equally eligible to of fices , as had been the constant practice in Rome , from the building of the city until the method of taking the votes by ...
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... allowed the senate a negative upon every proposed law.- But as that power was exercised with greater partiality in favour of the higher ranks , in pro- portion as the difference of rank increased , it was finally withdrawn when the ...
... allowed the senate a negative upon every proposed law.- But as that power was exercised with greater partiality in favour of the higher ranks , in pro- portion as the difference of rank increased , it was finally withdrawn when the ...
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... allowing their senate absolute power over their persons and property , or the disposal of offices , as these are trusts by far too great for human nature . HENCE , as the Roman senate , or directing council , had no power to take money ...
... allowing their senate absolute power over their persons and property , or the disposal of offices , as these are trusts by far too great for human nature . HENCE , as the Roman senate , or directing council , had no power to take money ...
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... allowing domestic slavery , must have had a great effect in hardening the hearts of the Romans , and corrupting their morals— counteracting the good effects of their consti- tution . HENCE , as their constitution made them ex- cel all ...
... allowing domestic slavery , must have had a great effect in hardening the hearts of the Romans , and corrupting their morals— counteracting the good effects of their consti- tution . HENCE , as their constitution made them ex- cel all ...
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... allow one person to mono- polize as much as would enable two or three hundred families to live independently . BUT no person can consider this as a level- ling law , any more than those men may be called levellers , who , to preserve a ...
... allow one person to mono- polize as much as would enable two or three hundred families to live independently . BUT no person can consider this as a level- ling law , any more than those men may be called levellers , who , to preserve a ...
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Page 57 - ... such persons with the magistracy, or even with the right of voting. " Would it not be prudent, and give greater steadiness and respectability to national deliberations, if none were allowed to hold any magistracy, or to vote for any public officer, until they were forty years of age ? Such a regulation would very much lessen the number of voters without injuring the...
Page 58 - Would it not be prudent, and give greater steadiness and respectability to national deliberations, if none were allowed to hold any magistracy, or to vote for any public officer, until they were forty years of age ? Such a regulation would very much lessen the number of voters, without injuring the rights of any class, and would put the magistracy, the election and control of public agents, and the judging and voting on laws, into the hands of men, who from having cooler pa*w>n(, and more experience,...
Page 57 - As there are so many instances of young persons, who, in a few years after their majority, spend their fortunes and ruin their health, from the want of experience, and from the violence of their passions, their own interest being an insufficient check to prevent them, nothing can appear more imprudent than to entrust such persons with the magistracy, or even with the right of voting.
Page 59 - Every three hundred of these, living most contiguous, to form a w«rd, and to meet in a church, or some other convenient place, on a certain day annually, to elect two provincial senators, and one ware'en or judge for the ward.
Page 50 - But by the constitution which was formed for the bank, the directors are not only elected annually, but they are liable to be superseded at any time by their constituents, and each director is liable individually, for every act which he has not protested against which the members of congress are not.
Page 51 - ... congress with power over the property of the nation; yet the American legislators did not think it prudent to allow the directors of the bank any absolute power whatever.