The Referendum in America: Together with Some Chapters on the History of the Initiative and Other Phases of Popular Government in the United StatesC. Scribner's Sons, 1900 - 430 Seiten |
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... authority , and that at remoter times the Greeks , the Macedonians and the ancient Franks held councils of the people . He seems not to have known of the survival of the folk - mote in some of the Swiss cantons , where the Landsgemeinde ...
... authority , and that at remoter times the Greeks , the Macedonians and the ancient Franks held councils of the people . He seems not to have known of the survival of the folk - mote in some of the Swiss cantons , where the Landsgemeinde ...
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... authority ; -the Assembly and the " County Committees " , organized by the citizens in 1774 , to arrange for appointing delegates to Congress , and to con- fer with the Assembly rather gratuitously in respect of questions of common ...
... authority ; -the Assembly and the " County Committees " , organized by the citizens in 1774 , to arrange for appointing delegates to Congress , and to con- fer with the Assembly rather gratuitously in respect of questions of common ...
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... authority of the people only " . 66 * The associators " , or the militiamen , who , in many cases , had been denied the suffrage heretofore , greatly to their dis- satisfaction , were now all enfranchised ipso facto by reason of their ...
... authority of the people only " . 66 * The associators " , or the militiamen , who , in many cases , had been denied the suffrage heretofore , greatly to their dis- satisfaction , were now all enfranchised ipso facto by reason of their ...
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... Pennsylvania Gazette , Sept. 18 , 1776.- " The proposed plan or frame of government for the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania " , sec . 18 . deprived of a very considerable part of its authority over 20 THE REFERENDUM IN AMERICA.
... Pennsylvania Gazette , Sept. 18 , 1776.- " The proposed plan or frame of government for the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania " , sec . 18 . deprived of a very considerable part of its authority over 20 THE REFERENDUM IN AMERICA.
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... authority over the executive department of the government , though it was still charged with the task of meeting annually with the members of the Council , and of electing by joint ballot from the latter body , the presiding executive ...
... authority over the executive department of the government , though it was still charged with the task of meeting annually with the members of the Council , and of electing by joint ballot from the latter body , the presiding executive ...
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Seite 148 - ... then it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people in such manner and at such time as the legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the legislature voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become part of the constitution...
Seite 148 - Senators, and shall be published for three months previous to the time of making such choice; and if in the Legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Seite 207 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Seite 277 - No county, city, town, or other municipal corporation, shall contract any debt, pledge its faith, or loan its credit, nor shall any tax be levied or collected by any officers of the same, except for the necessary expenses thereof, unless by a vote of the majority of the qualified voters therein.
Seite 13 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 25 - that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments, shall be separate and distinct; so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other...
Seite 113 - ... election shall have voted for a convention, the legislature shall at the next session provide by law for calling the same; and such convention shall consist of a number of members, not less than double that of the most numerous branch of the legislature.
Seite 148 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in either house of the general assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election...
Seite 140 - No convention of the people shall be called by the General Assembly to revise, amend or change this Constitution, unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly. The representation in said convention shall be based on population as near as practicable.
Seite 209 - One of the settled maxims in constitutional law is that the power conferred upon the legislature to make laws cannot be delegated by that department to any other body or authority. Where the sovereign power of the state has located the authority, there it must remain; and by the constitutional agency alone the laws must be made until the Constitution itself is changed.