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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... made war both honour- able and profitable to the nation , as well as to the army , and tempted the Romans to continue that inhuman trade . Being constantly en- gaged in successful war , the cruel practice of plundering.
... made war both honour- able and profitable to the nation , as well as to the army , and tempted the Romans to continue that inhuman trade . Being constantly en- gaged in successful war , the cruel practice of plundering.
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... formerly electing their own magistrates and generals only . They were by their conquests become a nation of absolute rulers , and tempted , like other absolute rulers , to oppress the people under their dominion , They elected 42.
... formerly electing their own magistrates and generals only . They were by their conquests become a nation of absolute rulers , and tempted , like other absolute rulers , to oppress the people under their dominion , They elected 42.
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... tempted them more and more to oppress the plebeians . It was to protect them- selves against such oppression , that the plebie- ans insisted upon having tribunes , with suffi- cient power to oppose the tyranny of the patri- cians . But ...
... tempted them more and more to oppress the plebeians . It was to protect them- selves against such oppression , that the plebie- ans insisted upon having tribunes , with suffi- cient power to oppose the tyranny of the patri- cians . But ...
الصفحة 92
... temptation , and the leaders would obtain . places worth ten , twenty , and some above for- ty times that sum . As the king , in such a government , must bribe a majority in the national assembly , to obtain their concurrence with his ...
... temptation , and the leaders would obtain . places worth ten , twenty , and some above for- ty times that sum . As the king , in such a government , must bribe a majority in the national assembly , to obtain their concurrence with his ...
الصفحة 100
... tempted to increase the number of places and perquisites , as the members of the limited monarchy , this government had the same ten- dency to waste and peculation . HENCE , by vesting the executive power in twenty - four men , instead ...
... tempted to increase the number of places and perquisites , as the members of the limited monarchy , this government had the same ten- dency to waste and peculation . HENCE , by vesting the executive power in twenty - four men , instead ...
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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.