Single Six-year Term for President: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments..., 92-1, on S.J. Res. 77..., October 28 and 29, 19711972 - 247 páginas |
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... duties and embarrass the people . 3. It is an interference with the constitutional rights of the people . 4. Better control over a President while in office is preferable to restricting the length of term . ( Abstracted from The ...
... duties and embarrass the people . 3. It is an interference with the constitutional rights of the people . 4. Better control over a President while in office is preferable to restricting the length of term . ( Abstracted from The ...
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... duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire . I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power , consistantly with mo- tives which I was not at liberty to disregard , to return to that retirement from ...
... duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire . I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power , consistantly with mo- tives which I was not at liberty to disregard , to return to that retirement from ...
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... duty to withdraw at the close of my present term of office ; and to strengthen by practice a principle which I deem salutary . e . Reply to Vermont legislature , December 1807 ( p . 865 ) I received the address of the Legislature of ...
... duty to withdraw at the close of my present term of office ; and to strengthen by practice a principle which I deem salutary . e . Reply to Vermont legislature , December 1807 ( p . 865 ) I received the address of the Legislature of ...
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... duty , and that the securities for this independence may be rendered as strong as the nature of power and the weakness of its possessor will admit , I can not too earnestly invite your attention to the propriety of promoting such an ...
... duty , and that the securities for this independence may be rendered as strong as the nature of power and the weakness of its possessor will admit , I can not too earnestly invite your attention to the propriety of promoting such an ...
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... duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson , and to urge that the amendment to the Constitution herewith presented , or some similar proposition , may be submitted to the people ...
... duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson , and to urge that the amendment to the Constitution herewith presented , or some similar proposition , may be submitted to the people ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 169 - No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Página 157 - ... not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness ; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.
Página 21 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Página 157 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Página 4 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 22 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 158 - It is from within, among yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition, and inordinate thirst for power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
Página 16 - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Página 135 - It has been a maxim in political science that Republican Government is not adapted to a large extent of Country, because the energy of the Executive Magistracy can not reach the extreme parts of it.
Página 16 - The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair after he becomes a dotard, that reelection through life shall become habitual, and election for life follow that.