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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... rich had evaded the law in various ways ; and many persons were , in the time of Tiberius Gracchus , possessed of very large estates , a part of which was culti- vated by tenants , but the greatest part by slaves , which lessened the ...
... rich had evaded the law in various ways ; and many persons were , in the time of Tiberius Gracchus , possessed of very large estates , a part of which was culti- vated by tenants , but the greatest part by slaves , which lessened the ...
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... rich city of Rome and its po- pulous neighbourhood ; so that the rent of five hundred acres would probably be equal to from one hundred to ten thousand pounds of money at its present value ; according to the situation , quality , and ...
... rich city of Rome and its po- pulous neighbourhood ; so that the rent of five hundred acres would probably be equal to from one hundred to ten thousand pounds of money at its present value ; according to the situation , quality , and ...
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... rich , and offered himself as candidate for the tribuneship next year , to carry the law into practice . But the senators and rich men , detesting the law , determined to oppose his re - election by force , and ordered all their clients ...
... rich , and offered himself as candidate for the tribuneship next year , to carry the law into practice . But the senators and rich men , detesting the law , determined to oppose his re - election by force , and ordered all their clients ...
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... rich men , instead of submitting peaceably , as they expected poor men to do in like cases , these proud men murdered the person who took the lead in enacting the law , and those who supported him . No king , or other member of a ...
... rich men , instead of submitting peaceably , as they expected poor men to do in like cases , these proud men murdered the person who took the lead in enacting the law , and those who supported him . No king , or other member of a ...
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... rich represented to the people , that it would be unjust to determine the quantity be- longing to any individual , until the bounda- ries were settled , and that judges should be appointed for that purpose , as Caius and the other two ...
... rich represented to the people , that it would be unjust to determine the quantity be- longing to any individual , until the bounda- ries were settled , and that judges should be appointed for that purpose , as Caius and the other two ...
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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.