Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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Seite 235 - No President who performs his duty faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.
Seite 172 - That it was a most perilous precedent, where two knights of a county were duly elected, if any new writ should issue out for a second election, without order of the house itself; that the discussing and adjudging of this and such like differences...
Seite 24 - The proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States." 1900. William A. Schaper, " Sectionalism and representation in South Carolina.
Seite 174 - For, as every court of justice hath laws and customs for its direction, some the civil and canon, some the common law, others their own peculiar laws and customs, so the high court of parliament hath also its own peculiar law, called the lex et consuetude parliamenti; a law which Sir Edward Coke(i) observes, is "ab omnibus queerenda, a multis ignorata, a pavcis cognita (m).
Seite 174 - Aylesbury against a returning officer who had refused to give him a vote to which he was legally entitled. The right to vote was not in question, only the right to sue for the refusal to allow the voter the exercise of his legal right. The Commons resolved that neither the qualification of any elector, nor the right of any person elected is cognizable or determinable elsewhere than in the Commons of England in Parliament assembled ; and then further resolved that Ashby was guilty of a breach of I...
Seite 11 - These officers shall be elected by ballot at each regular annual meeting of the association.
Seite 176 - It is said that the House of Commons is the sole judge of its own privileges ; and so I admit, as far as proceedings in the House and some other things are concerned ; but I do not think it follows that they have a power to declare what their privileges are, so as to preclude inquiry whether what they declare are part of their...
Seite 171 - Such is the brief statement of Maitland in his Constitutional History of England. The history of the " claim " and its validity may be of sufficient interest to detain the attention of the members of the American Historical Association for a few minutes. Old Sir Simonds D'Ewes, the imperturbable pedant, as Trevelyan calls him, gives us in his " Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth " the first full account of any instance of such a claim.
Seite 287 - ... herself; and though her desire would be to see that country independent, yet it is not a point she would seek to carry by disturbing the peace of the world. But she will, doubtless, now, take care that Mexico shall not cede California, or any part thereof, to us. You know my opinion to have been, and it now is, that the port of San Francisco would be twenty times as valuable to us as all Texas.
Seite 127 - ... India that led Columbus to the discovery of the New World was caused by the advance westward of the Ottoman Turks and their interference with the old paths of commerce in the east The...