Readings on Parties and Elections in the United StatesChester Lloyd Jones Macmillan, 1912 - 354 pages |
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... favors to make control of its organization a matter of supreme importance to office seekers and various corporate in- terests . Thus while the system discourages an unselfish and public - spirited interest in party politics , it does ...
... favors to make control of its organization a matter of supreme importance to office seekers and various corporate in- terests . Thus while the system discourages an unselfish and public - spirited interest in party politics , it does ...
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... favor of that illustrious and patriotic citizen , Andrew Jackson of Tennessee , as president , and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina , as vice - president , Resolved , That Andrew Jackson of Tennessee be nominated as the Democratic ...
... favor of that illustrious and patriotic citizen , Andrew Jackson of Tennessee , as president , and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina , as vice - president , Resolved , That Andrew Jackson of Tennessee be nominated as the Democratic ...
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... favor- able to any one of the candidates he desires to see nominated , but such is the variety of opinions that he would find it impos- sible to name a list of delegates who would be unanimously fa- vorable to his choice for every one ...
... favor- able to any one of the candidates he desires to see nominated , but such is the variety of opinions that he would find it impos- sible to name a list of delegates who would be unanimously fa- vorable to his choice for every one ...
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... favor as candidates for the respective positions . ) OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF . . . CITY AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION For Mayor ( Name of Candidate . ) ( Vote for one . ) For Councilman ...
... favor as candidates for the respective positions . ) OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT CANDIDATE FOR NOMINATION FOR MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF . . . CITY AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION For Mayor ( Name of Candidate . ) ( Vote for one . ) For Councilman ...
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... support of a particular " slate , " it will be difficult for the candidate , not so supported , to succeed . The odds are too greatly in favor of the regular army against the unorganized 76 Readings on Parties and Elections.
... support of a particular " slate , " it will be difficult for the candidate , not so supported , to succeed . The odds are too greatly in favor of the regular army against the unorganized 76 Readings on Parties and Elections.
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Page 29 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Page 36 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 333 - ... 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...
Page 34 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Page 30 - No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? And what are the different classes of...
Page 38 - Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other.
Page 32 - Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression. If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control.
Page 32 - A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
Page 265 - Sixth, that no person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body.
Page 143 - States providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, and that we urge our senators and representative to use their best endeavors to secure such amendment.