Legislative Problems: Development, Status, and Trend of the Treatment and Exercise of Lawmaking PowersThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006 - 762 Seiten |
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OVERLAPPINGS | 104 |
THE VETO POWER | 140 |
VETO DETAILS | 171 |
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS | 197 |
RISE OF THE EXECUTIVE | 231 |
CABINETS FOR THE UNITED STATES | 307 |
THE BUDGET | 340 |
STUDY AND PREPARATION | 364 |
ADMINISTRATIVE LEGISLATION | 464 |
DELEGATION | 499 |
RESTRAINING LEGISLATURES | 550 |
CLAIMS | 593 |
VOLUME AS RESULT AND EFFECT | 647 |
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Seite 53 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Seite 9 - 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 is one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Seite 5 - ... there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Seite 18 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government.
Seite 56 - It may well be doubted whether the nature of society and of government does not .prescribe some limits to the legislative power; and, if any be prescribed, where are they to be found, if the property of an individual, fairly and honestly acquired, may be seized without compensation...
Seite 21 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.