Debate Outlines on Public Questions

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Minton, Balch, 1928 - 238 páginas

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Página 8 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Página 32 - The Progressive party demands such restriction of the power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate authority to determine fundamental questions of social welfare and public policy.
Página 7 - All bills for raising revenue must originate in the house of representatives ; but the senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills.
Página 32 - I think the modern doctrine of impeachment should yield to an appellate jurisdiction of the legislature. A reversal of those legal opinions deemed unsound by the legislature would certainly better comport with the mildness of our character than a removal of the judge who has rendered them unknowing of his fault.
Página 45 - We are at this moment in Nicaragua, but what we are doing there and the commitments we have made are at the request of both parties and in the interest of peace and order and a fair election.
Página 115 - Samuel Seabury, Municipal Ownership and Operation of Public Utilities in New York City...
Página 13 - ... is this difference: That the judgment and will of the Senate can regard only the person proposed by the President, while there is no similar constitutional limitation upon his judgment and will. But there is no right in Congress to constrain either to adopt the judgment and the will of others. Such constraint frustrates the constitutional design, that the judgment of the Senate shall revise the judgment of the President, and that the judgment of both shall concur in filling the office.
Página 108 - Federal franchise or license. (e) The full protection of the grantees of such franchise or license who obey the laws applicable thereto. (f) The right to refuse or withdraw such franchise or license...
Página 49 - ... Government that the Imperial Government were fully prepared to maintain with equal effectiveness the limitation and control which were then exerted in regulation of the emigration of laborers to the United States. Accordingly, in order to correct and finally dispel the popular error, I wish to say that there is no question whatever between Japan and the United States on the subject of the Japanese labor immigration into the United States.
Página 9 - There seems to be no reason why this process should not be carried on until the domestic price is pushed to the point at which the return to the farmer will bring his economic position into favorable comparison with that of other producers.

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