 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...dropped in the late controversy, and it was thought enough to quote the well-known epigram of SieVes on the sub-ject of Second Chambers. " If," it runs,...from the book of the Prophet, they are impious ; if thev agree, they are useless." The reasoning is precisely the same in both cases, and starts from the... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...those which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century.19 "If a second chamber," said Sie"yes, " dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous."11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1896 - 734 pages
...which were rife at the end of the eighteenth century. 10 " If a second chamber," said Sie'yes, •• dissents from the first, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." 11 The two principal advantages of such a system are the prevention of tyranny and self-seeking by... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Great Britain - 1903 - 400 pages
...England who are opposed One Chamber, to the bicameral principle. They believe with Sieyes that " if a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." The views of Sir Charles Dilke, " an advanced Liberal " and well-known writer on political affairs,... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - 1909 - 192 pages
...problem of a Second Chamber is one to be envied ; for, to him it presented no difficulties whatever. " If a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous ; if it agrees, it is superfluous." It was on similar grounds that the contents of the Alexandrian Library, viewed as possible rivals to the... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Legislative bodies - 1910 - 330 pages
...terrarum. With rare unanimity the civilized world has decided in favour of a bi-cameral legislature. ' If a Second Chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it, it is superfluous.' Such was the superficial dilemma propounded by the Abbe Sie"yes, arch-constitution-monger... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Administrative law - 1910 - 362 pages
...And yet a priori there is much to be said for the famous dilemma propounded by the Abbe Sidyes : ' If a Second Chamber dissents from the first it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it; it is superfluous.' But the nations of the modern world have with rare unanimity refused to... | |
 | Rainbow Circle, London - Legislative bodies - 1911 - 188 pages
...Taking as his text the solemn pronouncement (I had almost said the tag) of the Abbe Sieyes that if a Second Chamber "dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it, it is superfluous," he argued with great skill in favour of uni-cameral government. But then,... | |
 | Robert Luce - Legislative bodies - 1924 - 718 pages
...deliberation." * Contrast this with the shallow epigram of Sieyes at the time of the French Revolution : " If a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous." Neither is true. Dissent proves, at least in theory, that the change proposed does not commend itself... | |
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If a second chamber dissents from the first, it is mischievous ; if it agrees with it, it is superfluous... 
