The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789: A Study in Constitutional History

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 182 Seiten
 

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Seite 444 - For this reason that convention, which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Seite 444 - ... be effectual; because in that case, they may put their proceedings into the form of an act of assembly, which will render them obligatory on the other branches. They have accordingly, in many instances decided rights, which should have been left to judiciary controversy ; and the direction of the executive, during the whole time of their session, is becoming habitual and familiar.
Seite 437 - Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.
Seite 411 - ... HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Preservation facsimile printed on alkaline/buffered paper and bound by Acme Bookbinding Charlestown, Massachusetts 2003 $arbarti College library FROM THE BRIGHT LEGACY.
Seite 160 - ... that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers ought to be kept as separate from and independent of each other as the nature of a free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole fabric of the Constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity.
Seite 500 - He did not consider the Prerogatives of the British Monarch as a proper guide in defining the Executive powers. Some of these prerogatives were of a Legislative nature. Among others that of war & peace &c. The only powers he conceived strictly Executive were those of executing the laws, and appointing officers, not (appertaining to and) appointed by the Legislature.
Seite 82 - Executive to be as follows: to have a negative on all laws about to be passed, and the execution of all laws passed; to have the direction of war when authorized or begun; to have with the advice and approbation of the Senate the power of making all treaties; to have the sole appointment of the heads or chief officers of the departments of Finance, War and Foreign Affairs...
Seite 498 - Resolved that a National Executive be instituted to consist of a Single Person to be chosen by the National Legislature...
Seite 493 - The second party was not for the abolition of the State governments, nor for the introduction of a monarchical government under any form ; but they wished to establish such a system as could give their own States undue power and influence, in the government, over the other States.
Seite 177 - ALBERT SHAW LECTURES ON DIPLOMATIC HISTORY 1899. JOHN H. LATANE. The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and Spanish America. 1900 (Out of print.) 1900. JAMES MORTON CALLAHAN. The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy. 1901. (Out of print.) 1906. JESSE SIDDALL REEVES. American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk. 1907. $1.75. 1907.

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