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... executive branch of government represents usually one party or group of parties and in unity of thought and action approaches closest to the in- ternational ideal , but it is withal only an aggregate of individuals , each primarily ...
... executive branch of government represents usually one party or group of parties and in unity of thought and action approaches closest to the in- ternational ideal , but it is withal only an aggregate of individuals , each primarily ...
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... executive and legis- lative branches of governments are more frequently observable . They are by no means confined to the United States . One need but recall the case of the Declaration of London , when the British House of Lords ...
... executive and legis- lative branches of governments are more frequently observable . They are by no means confined to the United States . One need but recall the case of the Declaration of London , when the British House of Lords ...
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... executive , with individual members of the legislature , with the press , and with private citizens . Negotiation is the normal course of international business , the solvent to which all questions are sub- jected in the preliminary ...
... executive , with individual members of the legislature , with the press , and with private citizens . Negotiation is the normal course of international business , the solvent to which all questions are sub- jected in the preliminary ...
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... executive branch of government . Secondly , the legis- lature participates in the conclusion or enforcement of international acts which have the nature or effect of domestic legislation . Thirdly , the legislature 1 The principle that ...
... executive branch of government . Secondly , the legis- lature participates in the conclusion or enforcement of international acts which have the nature or effect of domestic legislation . Thirdly , the legislature 1 The principle that ...
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... executive . The modern demo- cratic tendency emphasizes the rôle of the legisla- ture , but holds to the practical necessity of allowing the executive as free a hand as possible in a world of conflicting national interests . Gradual ...
... executive . The modern demo- cratic tendency emphasizes the rôle of the legisla- ture , but holds to the practical necessity of allowing the executive as free a hand as possible in a world of conflicting national interests . Gradual ...
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Page 69 - It should be your effort to bring about in the Second Conference a development of the Hague Tribunal into a permanent tribunal composed of judges who are judicial officers and nothing else, who are paid adequate salaries, who have no other occupation, and who will devote their entire time to the trial and decision of international causes by judicial methods and under a sense of judicial responsibility.
Page 84 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of...
Page 173 - The idea is Utopian, that government can exist without leaving the exercise of discretion somewhere. Public security against the abuse of such discretion must rest on responsibility, and stated appeals to public approbation. Where all power is derived from the people, and public functionaries, at short intervals, deposit it at the feet of the people, to be resumed again only at their will, individual fears may be alarmed by the monsters of imagination, but individual liberty can be in little danger.
Page 100 - The general doctrine of our Constitution then is, that the executive power of the nation is vested in the President; subject only to the exceptions and qualifications, which are expressed in the instrument.
Page 101 - Time and time again debates have arisen in each House upon issues which the information of a particular department head would have enabled him, if present, to end at once by a simple explanation or statement.
Page 44 - ... only objection; but this he thought, so far as it was inconsistent with obtaining the Legislative sanction, was outweighed by the necessity of the latter. " Mr. Sherman thought the only question that could be made was whether the power could be safely trusted to the Senate. He thought it could; and that the necessity of secrecy in the case of treaties forbade a reference of them to the whole Legislature.
Page 169 - France that nothing but the inflexible character of Washington, and the immense popularity which he enjoyed, could have prevented the Americans from declaring war against England. And even then, the exertions which the austere reason of that great man made to repress the generous but imprudent passions of his fellow-citizens, very nearly deprived him of the sole recompense which he had ever claimed — that of his country's love.
Page 48 - Now the irreparable mistake of our Constitution puts it into the power of one third + 1 of the Senate to meet with a categorical veto any treaty negotiated by the President, even though it may have the approval of nine tenths of the people of the nation.