The Constitutional Review, Volumen1National Association for Constitutional Government, 1917 Includes section "Book reviews". |
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... forces that are quietly working to accomplish these ends . So- ciety after society has passed and pub- lished resolutions that any judge who declares any act of any legislative body , or any act of direct legislation where that is ...
... forces that are quietly working to accomplish these ends . So- ciety after society has passed and pub- lished resolutions that any judge who declares any act of any legislative body , or any act of direct legislation where that is ...
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... force or peaceful means , is always a most serious matter . Experiments in government are dangerous and should be entered upon only for pressing and sufficient reasons , and then only after the most mature reflection . No intelli- gent ...
... force or peaceful means , is always a most serious matter . Experiments in government are dangerous and should be entered upon only for pressing and sufficient reasons , and then only after the most mature reflection . No intelli- gent ...
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... force . " Jay , who was not a member of the convention and therefore could speak freely on the subject , in advocating the adoption of the Constitution , said , in reference to the deliberations of the convention : " This convention ...
... force . " Jay , who was not a member of the convention and therefore could speak freely on the subject , in advocating the adoption of the Constitution , said , in reference to the deliberations of the convention : " This convention ...
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... force . " The general judgment of students of the science of government upon our Constitution is summarized in the fa- miliar statement of the great English statesman , Gladstone , when he charac- terized it as " the most wonderful work ...
... force . " The general judgment of students of the science of government upon our Constitution is summarized in the fa- miliar statement of the great English statesman , Gladstone , when he charac- terized it as " the most wonderful work ...
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... force . It is not proof against internal violence . Shall we now , against the judgment of the founders of this republic ; against the verdict of history and our own experience , remove the restrictions which have thus far se- cured us ...
... force . It is not proof against internal violence . Shall we now , against the judgment of the founders of this republic ; against the verdict of history and our own experience , remove the restrictions which have thus far se- cured us ...
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Página 21 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Página 21 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Página 20 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Página 17 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic...
Página 103 - The nation may grant the same right to foreigners, provided they agree before the department of foreign affairs to be considered Mexicans in respect to such property, and accordingly not to invoke the protection of their Governments in respect to the eame, under penalty, in case of breach, of forfeiture to the nation of property so acquired.
Página 21 - That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny ; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union, may I not speak? Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our National fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it?
Página 17 - From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole ; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself ; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious...
Página 15 - The science of politics, however, like most other sciences, has received great improvement. The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
Página 33 - The cardinal principle of statutory construction is to save and not to destroy. We have repeatedly held that as between two possible interpretations of a statute, by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid, our plain duty is to adopt that which will save the act. Even to avoid a serious doubt the rule is the same.
Página 32 - It is that unless the party setting up the unconstitutionality of the state law belongs to the class for whose sake the constitutional protection is given, or the class primarily protected, this court does not listen to his objections, and will not go into imaginary cases, notwithstanding the seeming logic of the position that it must do so, because if, for any reason, or as against any class embraced, the law is unconstitutional, it is void as to all.