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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... obtain the places for their friends , but would also tempt them to form schemes for their mutual advantage , at the expense of the public ; which , besides the great national loss , would corrupt the morals of the senators and officers ...
... obtain the places for their friends , but would also tempt them to form schemes for their mutual advantage , at the expense of the public ; which , besides the great national loss , would corrupt the morals of the senators and officers ...
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... obtained by the interest of friends , then , 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 ...
... obtained by the interest of friends , then , 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 ...
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... obtaining the office for themselves or friends , or of obtaining a bribe , in that case it is the in- terest of the majority , however selfish , to vote for the best qualified and most patriotic candi- date , as their personal interest ...
... obtaining the office for themselves or friends , or of obtaining a bribe , in that case it is the in- terest of the majority , however selfish , to vote for the best qualified and most patriotic candi- date , as their personal interest ...
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... this mode of election had an equally good ef- fect upon the whole society . FOR as all men wish to be of consequence , the surest way of obtaining that end in such a society as that of ancient Rome , was to acquire 23.
... this mode of election had an equally good ef- fect upon the whole society . FOR as all men wish to be of consequence , the surest way of obtaining that end in such a society as that of ancient Rome , was to acquire 23.
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... obtain honour and a triumph , during his command . THE next superior officers , not having him for a rival , would second him in all his schemes to the utmost of their power , to raise their own character and obtain the consulate . THE ...
... obtain honour and a triumph , during his command . THE next superior officers , not having him for a rival , would second him in all his schemes to the utmost of their power , to raise their own character and obtain the consulate . THE ...
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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.