Selected Articles on the Initiative and ReferendumH.W. Wilson Company, 1909 - Всего страниц: 164 |
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Стр. 145 - ... but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...
Стр. 145 - The legislative authority of the State shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...
Стр. 120 - During my term of office, I shall consider the vote of the people for United States Senator in Congress as nothing more than a recommendation which I shall be at liberty to wholly disregard if the reason for doing so seems to me to be sufficient.
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Стр. 120 - I further state to the people of Oregon, as well as to the people of my legislative district, that during my term of office I will always vote for that candidate for United States Senator in Congress who has received the highest number of the people's votes for that position at the general election next preceding the election of a Senator in Congress, without regard to my individual prelerence.
Стр. 117 - ... for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable unalienable. and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
Стр. 145 - The initiative and referendum amendment was not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It provided, first of all, a way by which the constitution could be amended in any particular within a reasonable time by the people acting in their legislative capacity. Those who were responsible for bringing forward the amendment had in mind several important reforms whose enactment into law they believed would be made possible only by this means.
Стр. 32 - At present, as far as one can see, the democratic world is filled with distrust and dislike of its parliaments, and submits to them only under the pressure of stern necessity. . . . They (democracies) seem to be getting tired of the representative system. In no country is it receiving the praises it received forty years ago.
Стр. 142 - This device enables the legislature to correct faults in the proposed legislation. The substitute will undoubtedly be far superior to the initiative bill. The existence of the two bills will, however, complicate greatly the work of the people. The voting upon a single bill is difficult enough ; the choosing between competing bills will be much more difficult. The most that can be claimed for the initiative is that it forces the legislature to act. The laws resulting from this coercion will in most...
Стр. 31 - American people are fairly content with their executive and judicial departments of government, but they feel that their law-making bodies have painfully failed. This conviction pertains to all grades of legislatures, municipal, State, and Federal. The newspapers speak what the people feel; and, judging therefrom, it is popular to denounce aldermen, legislators, and congressmen. When Congress is in session, the business interests are reported to be in agony until it adjourns. The cry that rises towards...
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| Название | Selected Articles on the Initiative and Referendum Debaters' handbook series |
| составитель: | Edith M. Phelps |
| Издатель | H.W. Wilson Company, 1909 |
| Владелец оригинала: | Гарвардский университет |
| Оцифровано | 20 июл 2006 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 164 |
| Экспорт цитаты | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |