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 ElectionsHopkins & Seymour, 1805 - 156 σελίδες |
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... individual from rising to absolute power . And as every individual of the army depended upon the people for promotion , the senators could not expect that the army would assist them 18.
... individual from rising to absolute power . And as every individual of the army depended upon the people for promotion , the senators could not expect that the army would assist them 18.
Σελίδα 26
... individual in their armies , as it was very com- mon for privates to rise to high commands , and sometimes to the consulate . And as the con- sul was certainly to be changed at the end of the campaign , he would exert himself to obtain ...
... individual in their armies , as it was very com- mon for privates to rise to high commands , and sometimes to the consulate . And as the con- sul was certainly to be changed at the end of the campaign , he would exert himself to obtain ...
Σελίδα 35
... individuals , who had unadvisedly pur- chased these lands , they had themselves to blame , as they knew that such purchase was contrary to law . Nor was it any greater hard- ship than numbers of individuals are obliged to submit to ...
... individuals , who had unadvisedly pur- chased these lands , they had themselves to blame , as they knew that such purchase was contrary to law . Nor was it any greater hard- ship than numbers of individuals are obliged to submit to ...
Σελίδα 36
... individuals , when injured in that way . THIS is the first blood that was shed in the Roman public assemblies , notwithstanding the very great number of people that had voted at them for 620 years . The magistrates , instead of making ...
... individuals , when injured in that way . THIS is the first blood that was shed in the Roman public assemblies , notwithstanding the very great number of people that had voted at them for 620 years . The magistrates , instead of making ...
Σελίδα 38
... individual , until the bounda- ries were settled , and that judges should be appointed for that purpose , as Caius and the other two commissioners could not have time for so much business . This being a fair pro- posal , it was agreed ...
... individual , until the bounda- ries were settled , and that judges should be appointed for that purpose , as Caius and the other two commissioners could not have time for so much business . This being a fair pro- posal , it was agreed ...
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Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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,...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.