The Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal: A TreatiseLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873 - 380 Seiten |
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action adopted Antrag Appendix appropriated ballot Bill body boroughs Bürgerschaft candidat candidates character choice clause constituency contingent votes Cumulative Vote députés desire die Majorität die Partei district division droit duty effect election electoral district electors entitled equal excluded favour franchise give Hare Hare's system Hare'sche System House of Commons individual influence inhabitants interests kingdom labours large number legislation less Majorität majorité ment method Minorität minorité minority moral names nature nombre nomination number of members number of votes object operation Parliament parliamentary party persons political popular practical present principle proportion proportional representation proposed qu'il question quotient Recht Reform regard registrars repre representation representative respect result returning officer scheme secure serait Single Vote society soll Stimmen stituencies suffrage supposed thought tion town Vertreter Vertretung voters votes polled voting papers voting-papers Wahl Wahlen William Henry Sykes Zahl
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Seite 42 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are
Seite 43 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Seite 42 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Seite 260 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Seite 151 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Seite 223 - By these theorists the right of the people is almost always sophistically confounded with their power. The body of the community, whenever it can come to act, can meet with no effectual resistance; but till power and right are the same, the whole body of them has no right inconsistent with virtue, and the first of all virtues, prudence. Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit...
Seite 223 - One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is, that no man should be judge in his own cause. By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause.
Seite 126 - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust ; and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, author and founder of society.
Seite 261 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself...
Seite 6 - Of this I am certain, that in a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority, whenever strong divisions prevail in that kind of polity, as they often must...