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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... taken up with zeal by the advocates of radical social reforms in the belief that it is only the representative system which stands between them and the realization of their ideals . Seeing the light first in the political vi PREFACE.
... taken up with zeal by the advocates of radical social reforms in the belief that it is only the representative system which stands between them and the realization of their ideals . Seeing the light first in the political vi PREFACE.
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... taken from the constitutional forms of the mother country . Mr. Adams had made them the study of his life , and fully believed that they rested upon general principles of the highest possible value . He had little of the purely scheming ...
... taken from the constitutional forms of the mother country . Mr. Adams had made them the study of his life , and fully believed that they rested upon general principles of the highest possible value . He had little of the purely scheming ...
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... taken to establish a new government , as the Congress had advised . There were at this time in the colony , two bodies almost parallel in authority ; -the Assembly and the " County Committees " , organized by the citizens in 1774 , to ...
... taken to establish a new government , as the Congress had advised . There were at this time in the colony , two bodies almost parallel in authority ; -the Assembly and the " County Committees " , organized by the citizens in 1774 , to ...
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... taken almost verbatim from that of Vir- ginia , which was made and published two or three months before that of Philadelphia was begun ; it was made by Mr. Mason , as that of Pennsylvania was by Timothy Matlack , James Cannon and Thomas ...
... taken almost verbatim from that of Vir- ginia , which was made and published two or three months before that of Philadelphia was begun ; it was made by Mr. Mason , as that of Pennsylvania was by Timothy Matlack , James Cannon and Thomas ...
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... taken an interest in constitutional subjects at this time , attacking the American Constitutions , in that there was an unreason- 66 85 Laboulaye , op . cit . Tome I , pp . 370-71 . See , too , Voltaire's amus- ing apostrophe to the ...
... taken an interest in constitutional subjects at this time , attacking the American Constitutions , in that there was an unreason- 66 85 Laboulaye , op . cit . Tome I , pp . 370-71 . See , too , Voltaire's amus- ing apostrophe to the ...
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Seite 207 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vo.te of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Seite 279 - 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 345 - ... in harmony with and subject to the Constitution and laws of the State.
Seite 79 - State, and a Council of Revision, composed of the Governor, the chancellor and the judges of the Supreme Court, in the latter commonwealth.
Seite 184 - The legislature may also borrow money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in time of war; but the money thus raised shall be applied exclusively to the object for which the loan was authorized, or to the repayment of the debt thereby created.
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...
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 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 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.