The New Democracy: A Political StudyMacmillan and Company, limited, 1899 - 215 σελίδες |
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The New Democracy: A Political Study (Classic Reprint) W. Jethro Brown Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
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Σελίδα 149 - The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular states, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other states : A religious sect, may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the confederacy ; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it, must secure the national councils against any danger from that source...
Σελίδα 149 - A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project...
Σελίδα 154 - Are not the former administered by men as well as the latter? Are there not aversions, predilections, rivalships, and desires of unjust acquisition, that affect nations, as well as kings ? Are not popular assemblies frequently subject to the impulses of rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and of other irregular and violent propensities?
Σελίδα 210 - No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation of any State in either house of the parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a State in the house of representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise altering the limits of the State, or in any manner affecting the provisions of the constitution in relation thereto shall become law unless the majority of the electors voting in that State approve the proposed law.
Σελίδα 137 - I was much acquainted with the leading patriots of the Assembly. Being from a country which had successfully passed through a similar reformation, they were disposed to my acquaintance, and had some confidence in me. I urged, most strenuously, an immediate compromise ; to secure what the government was now ready to yield, and trust to future occasions for what might still be wanting.
Σελίδα 205 - After the first general election, no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.
Σελίδα 151 - To presume a want of motives for such contests as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.
Σελίδα 30 - Parliament; a scheme which has the almost unparalleled merit of carrying out a great principle of government in a manner approaching to ideal perfection as regards the special object in view, while it attains incidentally several other ends of scarcely inferior importance.
Σελίδα 46 - The full force of this cannot be appreciated except by referring to the former proof that the mass of a Parliament ought to be men of moderate sentiments, or they will elect an immoderate ministry, and enact violent laws. But upon the plan suggested, the House would be made up of party politicians selected by a party committee, chained to that committee and pledged to party violence, and of characteristic, and therefore immoderate representatives, for every " ism
Σελίδα 137 - The responsibility of Ministers : and with the exercise of these powers they could obtain, in future, whatever might be further necessary to improve and preserve their constitution. They thought otherwise, however, and events have proved their lamentable error. For, after thirty years of war, foreign and domestic, the loss of millions of lives, the prostration of private happiness, and the foreign subjugation of their own country for a time, they have obtained no more, nor even that securely.