Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Том 1

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Сторінка 405 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Сторінка 401 - When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Сторінка 230 - May, to be by them examined ; and in case of an election by a majority of all the votes returned, the choice shall be by them declared and published ; but if no person shall have a majority of votes, the house of representatives, shall, by ballot, elect two out of four persons, who had the highest number of votes, if so many shall have been voted for ; but if otherwise, out of the number voted for ; and make return to the senate of the two persons so elected ; on which, the senate shall proceed,...
Сторінка 385 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme.
Сторінка 145 - The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. An Historical Treatise in which is drawn out, by the Light of the most recent Researches, the gradual Development of the English Constitutional System, and the Growth out of that System of the Federal Republic of the United States.
Сторінка 393 - Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate...
Сторінка 540 - Authority, to ordain and make such Laws and Ordinances, for the Good and Welfare of the said Plantation, as to them from Time to Time, shall be thought requisite and meet: So always, as the same be not contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this our Realm of England...
Сторінка 179 - Commonwealth; and do, for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into combination and confederation together...
Сторінка 332 - Elements of Economics of Industry Being the First Volume of Elements of Economics. By ALFRED MARSHALL, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge.
Сторінка 215 - He observed that the general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the US laboured; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy: that some check therefore was to be sought for agst. this tendency of our Governments: and that a good Senate seemed most likely to answer the purpose.

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