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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... seems to be reason to sup- pose , that the virtue of the public agents of the ancient Romans , and the depravity of the public agents of the modern French , will be found to have been produced by the respective constitutions of these ...
... seems to be reason to sup- pose , that the virtue of the public agents of the ancient Romans , and the depravity of the public agents of the modern French , will be found to have been produced by the respective constitutions of these ...
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... seem to have been led into this inconsistency by the records of that early period , which narrated the princi- pal events only , in which the kings were the supreme commanders and directors . BUT if all the speeches in the senate and fo ...
... seem to have been led into this inconsistency by the records of that early period , which narrated the princi- pal events only , in which the kings were the supreme commanders and directors . BUT if all the speeches in the senate and fo ...
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... seem to have been also inaccu- rate in stating the manner of appointing sena- tors . Some of them say positively , that when the first hundred were appointed , each of the three tribes chose three , each of the thirty curiæ chose three ...
... seem to have been also inaccu- rate in stating the manner of appointing sena- tors . Some of them say positively , that when the first hundred were appointed , each of the three tribes chose three , each of the thirty curiæ chose three ...
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... seem to have foreseen , that intrusting this power to a few men , selected for the pur- pose , would irresistibly tempt them to appoint their own friends and favourites ; and that if they intrusted it to the senate , to which was 14.
... seem to have foreseen , that intrusting this power to a few men , selected for the pur- pose , would irresistibly tempt them to appoint their own friends and favourites ; and that if they intrusted it to the senate , to which was 14.
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... seem to have had no example to follow , and being very illiterate when they formed their constitution , their adopting such a regulation showed great prudence ; and they showed equal prudence in not allowing their senate absolute power ...
... seem to have had no example to follow , and being very illiterate when they formed their constitution , their adopting such a regulation showed great prudence ; and they showed equal prudence in not allowing their senate absolute power ...
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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.