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... Federal Constitution has provided against the infirmities of popular government has been proving itself in a most remarkable way . Thus , in nearly all the civilised world , a large body of new facts has been formed by which I endeavour ...
... Federal Constitution has provided against the infirmities of popular government has been proving itself in a most remarkable way . Thus , in nearly all the civilised world , a large body of new facts has been formed by which I endeavour ...
Page xi
... transforming itself into a popular government sur- rounded on all sides by difficulties , the American Federal Constitution has proved that , nearly a century ago , several expedients were discovered by which some PREFACE . xi.
... transforming itself into a popular government sur- rounded on all sides by difficulties , the American Federal Constitution has proved that , nearly a century ago , several expedients were discovered by which some PREFACE . xi.
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... Federal Constitution provides that , if fifty thousand Swiss citizens , entitled to vote , demand the revision of the Constitution , the question whether the Constitution be revised shall be put to the vote of the people of Switzerland ...
... Federal Constitution provides that , if fifty thousand Swiss citizens , entitled to vote , demand the revision of the Constitution , the question whether the Constitution be revised shall be put to the vote of the people of Switzerland ...
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... Federal law and every Federal decree , which is not urgent , shall be subject to the referendum ; that is , it shall be put to the popular vote . These pro- visions , that when a certain number of voters demand a particular measure , or ...
... Federal law and every Federal decree , which is not urgent , shall be subject to the referendum ; that is , it shall be put to the popular vote . These pro- visions , that when a certain number of voters demand a particular measure , or ...
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... Federal Constitu- tion ; and , judged by what has become the English standard , their legislation within these limits is almost trivial . As I attempted to show in my first essay , the legislative infertility of democracies springs from ...
... Federal Constitu- tion ; and , judged by what has become the English standard , their legislation within these limits is almost trivial . As I attempted to show in my first essay , the legislative infertility of democracies springs from ...
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Page 121 - House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Page 246 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 121 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Page 121 - Senators, and shall be published, for three months previous to the time of making such choice, and if in the Legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to...
Page 215 - This process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of president, will seldom fall to the lot of any man, who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
Page 178 - If a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it, it is superfluous...
Page 172 - ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 227 - Article provides (in s. 3) that "the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislatures thereof, for six years.
Page 46 - ... floods, hurricanes, and the ravages of war. An enemy lays waste a country by fire and sword, and destroys or carries away nearly all the movable wealth existing in it ; all the inhabitants are ruined, and yet, in a few years after, everything is much as it was before.
Page 173 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.