Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character, Characteristics, Habits, and Manners, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1924 - 691 páginas |
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... session . Under the brief Puritan régime , this was not feared , and by joint session the Burgesses could more easily have their way . Wherever the Charter prevented packing the upper House , the lower House was likely to prefer joint ...
... session . Under the brief Puritan régime , this was not feared , and by joint session the Burgesses could more easily have their way . Wherever the Charter prevented packing the upper House , the lower House was likely to prefer joint ...
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... session involved a fresh election , and the wages of the members , met by the localities , proved no slight burden . Every session meant more money or some favor for the King . Thus frequent sessions came to signify frequent taxation ...
... session involved a fresh election , and the wages of the members , met by the localities , proved no slight burden . Every session meant more money or some favor for the King . Thus frequent sessions came to signify frequent taxation ...
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... session has entered into business , but rather with a spirit of contradiction to what the prevailing set of men in for- mer Parliaments had brought to pass than for a disinterested zeal for the common good . The third session has ...
... session has entered into business , but rather with a spirit of contradiction to what the prevailing set of men in for- mer Parliaments had brought to pass than for a disinterested zeal for the common good . The third session has ...
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... Session " confuses by its varied applications . Accuracy will be furthered by restricting it here to that period of ... sessions , one usually of from six to eight months , the other of three . To discriminate , " sitting " may be used ...
... Session " confuses by its varied applications . Accuracy will be furthered by restricting it here to that period of ... sessions , one usually of from six to eight months , the other of three . To discriminate , " sitting " may be used ...
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... session to session had become very common . The records show from one to seven sessions held by one Assembly without renewal by election . However , Beverley ( 1705 ) says that the time of meeting of the Assembly had been either once a ...
... session to session had become very common . The records show from one to seven sessions held by one Assembly without renewal by election . However , Beverley ( 1705 ) says that the time of meeting of the Assembly had been either once a ...
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Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character ..., Volume 2 Robert Luce Visualização integral - 1924 |
Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character ..., Volume 2 Robert Luce Visualização integral - 1924 |
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Página 593 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Página 593 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Página 476 - ... any false scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Página 349 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Página 249 - And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the care .of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions...
Página 109 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Página 38 - a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous.
Página 82 - The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Página 76 - Society, must be an Effect of the Protection afforded to it by the joint Strength of the Society, in the Execution of its Laws. Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing...
Página 239 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.