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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... votes , or approbation of the people , determined the matter , as in the case of enacting laws . That such is their meaning appears more clear , when we reflect that Livy and other early historians express themselves so frequently in both.
... votes , or approbation of the people , determined the matter , as in the case of enacting laws . That such is their meaning appears more clear , when we reflect that Livy and other early historians express themselves so frequently in both.
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... matter was so well known , that the mode of expression could not be misunder- stood ; as English historians , for the same rea- son , frequently call an act of parliament , an act of the king or his minister . After THE disputes which ...
... matter was so well known , that the mode of expression could not be misunder- stood ; as English historians , for the same rea- son , frequently call an act of parliament , an act of the king or his minister . After THE disputes which ...
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... matter was laid be- fore an assembly of the people ( a majority of whom were the only sovereign ) and left to their decision . According to the same rules of pru- dence , the Romans reserved to themselves the sole power of appointing ...
... matter was laid be- fore an assembly of the people ( a majority of whom were the only sovereign ) and left to their decision . According to the same rules of pru- dence , the Romans reserved to themselves the sole power of appointing ...
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... matters into the assemblies of the people , where their armed followers enabled them to dictate such schemes as suited their ambitious views . THUS the three regulations of the constitu- tion , which appear to have been the principal ...
... matters into the assemblies of the people , where their armed followers enabled them to dictate such schemes as suited their ambitious views . THUS the three regulations of the constitu- tion , which appear to have been the principal ...
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... matters of life and death . But even here experience has shown it to be unnecessary ; for , in the country of our author , where the trial by jury is almost exclusively confined to matters of a criminal na- a strong bias for personal ...
... matters of life and death . But even here experience has shown it to be unnecessary ; for , in the country of our author , where the trial by jury is almost exclusively confined to matters of a criminal na- a strong bias for personal ...
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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.