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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... Assembly , to the Public Agents in France , · • 89 VIII . On the Conduct of the French Legislators , 117 IX . Absolute Power is not the less pernicious , that it emanates from the Society , · • 131 X. Equality of Rights as advantageous ...
... Assembly , to the Public Agents in France , · • 89 VIII . On the Conduct of the French Legislators , 117 IX . Absolute Power is not the less pernicious , that it emanates from the Society , · • 131 X. Equality of Rights as advantageous ...
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... assembly was filled up at each census to its usual number of three hundred , from the inferior offices , by the censors , not in private , but in the public assemblies of the people , by a general nomination . But whe- ther that ...
... assembly was filled up at each census to its usual number of three hundred , from the inferior offices , by the censors , not in private , but in the public assemblies of the people , by a general nomination . But whe- ther that ...
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... assembly of the people ( a majority of whom were the only sovereign ) and left to their decision . According to the same rules of pru- dence , the Romans reserved to themselves the sole power of appointing all public officers . THEY ...
... assembly of the people ( a majority of whom were the only sovereign ) and left to their decision . According to the same rules of pru- dence , the Romans reserved to themselves the sole power of appointing all public officers . THEY ...
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... assemblies , notwithstanding the very great number of people that had voted at them for 620 years . The magistrates , instead of making inquiry to find out the perpetrators of these atrocious murders , banished many 37 citizens for ...
... assemblies , notwithstanding the very great number of people that had voted at them for 620 years . The magistrates , instead of making inquiry to find out the perpetrators of these atrocious murders , banished many 37 citizens for ...
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... assemblies . HISTORIANS say , that the senators meant , by the terror of these acts , to deter any person from reviving these laws for the future . BUT this example which was set by the se- nators , of murdering the proposer and support ...
... assemblies . HISTORIANS say , that the senators meant , by the terror of these acts , to deter any person from reviving these laws for the future . BUT this example which was set by the se- nators , of murdering the proposer and support ...
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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.