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 من الصفحات |
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... acquiring im- proper influence in the army ; but there was no instance afterwards of any man claiming right to that high office , on account of his be ing the son of a consul , as had been done by several of the sons of the kings ...
... acquiring im- proper influence in the army ; but there was no instance afterwards of any man claiming right to that high office , on account of his be ing the son of a consul , as had been done by several of the sons of the kings ...
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... acquiring a character for abili- ties , integrity , and application to business , is the direct and surest method to obtain the votes of the electors , whether they be virtuous or vicious . A virtuous elector will vote for the candidate ...
... acquiring a character for abili- ties , integrity , and application to business , is the direct and surest method to obtain the votes of the electors , whether they be virtuous or vicious . A virtuous elector will vote for the candidate ...
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... few men have the disposal of offices ) but by acquiring a character for talents and integrity . THE Roman youth seem to have made them- selves first known when learning their exercise in the Campus Martius , and afterwards in the lower 21.
... few men have the disposal of offices ) but by acquiring a character for talents and integrity . THE Roman youth seem to have made them- selves first known when learning their exercise in the Campus Martius , and afterwards in the lower 21.
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... acquiring influence with the poor and with neighbours ; which in- fluence would command respect from the high- est ranks to those which were lower . And as the manners of the higher ranks are imitated by the lower , all these causes ...
... acquiring influence with the poor and with neighbours ; which in- fluence would command respect from the high- est ranks to those which were lower . And as the manners of the higher ranks are imitated by the lower , all these causes ...
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... acquiring such extensive territory as might endanger general liberty . And Tiberius Gracchus , and many other Romans , thought that it was necessary to pre- vent any of their countrymen from engrossing too much land , lest they should ...
... acquiring such extensive territory as might endanger general liberty . And Tiberius Gracchus , and many other Romans , thought that it was necessary to pre- vent any of their countrymen from engrossing too much land , lest they should ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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,...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.