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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الصفحة 43
... provinces . If electing one king puts a whole nation in a ferment , producing the most shameful bribery and sanguinary violence , what must be expect- ed when the inhabitants of one city have the disposal of so many mighty kingdoms ...
... provinces . If electing one king puts a whole nation in a ferment , producing the most shameful bribery and sanguinary violence , what must be expect- ed when the inhabitants of one city have the disposal of so many mighty kingdoms ...
الصفحة 45
... provinces of the republic , amongst them . By this prac- tice of determining laws and elections by force , which was introduced by the senate and rich men of Rome , the great offices became prizes to be fought for , and won by murder ...
... provinces of the republic , amongst them . By this prac- tice of determining laws and elections by force , which was introduced by the senate and rich men of Rome , the great offices became prizes to be fought for , and won by murder ...
الصفحة 59
... provinces of from thirty to sixty miles square , according as the country is popu- lous and conveniently situated ; and divide each province into districts , and make up sepa- rate lists of all the men in each district above forty years ...
... provinces of from thirty to sixty miles square , according as the country is popu- lous and conveniently situated ; and divide each province into districts , and make up sepa- rate lists of all the men in each district above forty years ...
الصفحة 60
... provincial senators , two men to be national senators ; these to continue to be also provincial senators . THE national senate , thus elected , to have the supreme direction of all the current nation- al business , with full control ...
... provincial senators , two men to be national senators ; these to continue to be also provincial senators . THE national senate , thus elected , to have the supreme direction of all the current nation- al business , with full control ...
الصفحة 62
... province , for the district , and for the ward , by their respective legislatures ; so as to leave the people at full liberty to manage their own af- fairs as they may think proper in their families , wards , districts , and provinces ...
... province , for the district , and for the ward , by their respective legislatures ; so as to leave the people at full liberty to manage their own af- fairs as they may think proper in their families , wards , districts , and provinces ...
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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.