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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... voters can have no hope of 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 ...
... voters can have no hope of 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 ...
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... voters . To form a just idea of the propriety of re- enacting this law , it is necessary to reflect , that the land in Italy is in general very rich , lies in a fine climate , was highly cultivated in the time of Tiberius , and that the ...
... voters . To form a just idea of the propriety of re- enacting this law , it is necessary to reflect , that the land in Italy is in general very rich , lies in a fine climate , was highly cultivated in the time of Tiberius , and that the ...
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... voters , he brought a body of foreign troops into the city , which he used as a guard , though contrary to law . But this ruinous precedent was overlooked by the senate and other magistrates , as it served their present purpose . On the ...
... voters , he brought a body of foreign troops into the city , which he used as a guard , though contrary to law . But this ruinous precedent was overlooked by the senate and other magistrates , as it served their present purpose . On the ...
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... voters and candidates were to- tally changed from what they were , when a majority of votes , taken in a peaceable way , decided every law and election ; and when the value of offices would not pay the expense of bribing 41.
... voters and candidates were to- tally changed from what they were , when a majority of votes , taken in a peaceable way , decided every law and election ; and when the value of offices would not pay the expense of bribing 41.
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... voters being about four hundred thousand , no private fortune could bribe a majority . It was therefore peculiarly unfortu- nate , that the example set by the senators , of using force , showed candidates a way , by which a few thousand ...
... voters being about four hundred thousand , no private fortune could bribe a majority . It was therefore peculiarly unfortu- nate , that the example set by the senators , of using force , showed candidates a way , by which a few thousand ...
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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.