Our Governmental MachineA.A. Knopf, 1924 - 223 pages |
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Page viii
... parties in American politics , which can be read with profit by those who have devoted laborious years to the subject . The whole story of this book is woven around some of the liveliest themes which are engrossing the atten- tion of ...
... parties in American politics , which can be read with profit by those who have devoted laborious years to the subject . The whole story of this book is woven around some of the liveliest themes which are engrossing the atten- tion of ...
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... PARTIES : THEIR AVOWED OB- JECTS AND ATTAINMENTS 30 IV THE PERSISTENCE OF THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES 4I V " PRACTICAL POLITICS " 47 VI THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF BOTH PARTIES : " THE CHOICE OF THE PRESIDENT " 60 BOOK TWO THE LEGAL FRAME OF ...
... PARTIES : THEIR AVOWED OB- JECTS AND ATTAINMENTS 30 IV THE PERSISTENCE OF THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES 4I V " PRACTICAL POLITICS " 47 VI THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF BOTH PARTIES : " THE CHOICE OF THE PRESIDENT " 60 BOOK TWO THE LEGAL FRAME OF ...
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... party , the Democratic party , the Progressive party , and the Farmer - Labor party . Is their publicity always impartial ? Do the churches present the pro's and con's of the questions they dis- cuss ? From how many orthodox pulpits ...
... party , the Democratic party , the Progressive party , and the Farmer - Labor party . Is their publicity always impartial ? Do the churches present the pro's and con's of the questions they dis- cuss ? From how many orthodox pulpits ...
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... the country . Our political parties , city councils , state legislatures , and Congress exist for the sole purpose of enacting into law the deci- sions of public opinion . Whatever defects exist in the PUBLIC OPINION 19.
... the country . Our political parties , city councils , state legislatures , and Congress exist for the sole purpose of enacting into law the deci- sions of public opinion . Whatever defects exist in the PUBLIC OPINION 19.
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... parties from their primary function of presenting issues to the voters to that of an office filling machine ( and this is one of them , as we shall see later ) contributes to this end . Worthwhile men are rarely interested in the spoils ...
... parties from their primary function of presenting issues to the voters to that of an office filling machine ( and this is one of them , as we shall see later ) contributes to this end . Worthwhile men are rarely interested in the spoils ...
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Page 126 - This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to study it further and long before making up my mind. But I do not conceive that to be my duty, because I strongly believe that my agreement or disagreement has nothing to do with the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law.
Page 126 - I think that the word liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment is perverted when it is held to prevent the natural outcome of a dominant opinion, unless it can be said that a rational and fair man necessarily would admit that the statute proposed would infringe fundamental principles as they have been understood by the traditions of our people and our law.
Page 80 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hands of God.
Page 26 - Experience will forever admonish them, that on the contrary, after securing a sufficient number for the purposes of safety, of local information, and of diffusive sympathy with the whole society, they will counteract their own views, by every addition to their representatives.
Page 52 - My party's in power in the city, and it's goin' to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I'm tipped off, say, that they're going to lay out a new park at a certain place. I see my opportunity and I take it. I go to that place and I buy up all the land I can in the neighborhood. Then the board of this or that makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit on my investment...
Page 27 - Mr. Platt and his lieutenants. It makes no difference what name you give, whether you call it Fenton or Conkling or Cornell or Arthur or Platt, or by the names of men now living. The ruler of the state during the greater part of the forty years of my acquaintance with the state government has not been any man authorized by the constitution or by the law ; and, sir, there is throughout the length and breadth...
Page 49 - You'll find him workin' for my ticket at the polls next election day. Then there's the feller that likes rowin' on the river, the young feller that makes a name as a waltzer on his block, the young feller that's handy with his dukes — I rope them all in by givin' them opportunities to show themselves off.
Page 48 - That was beginnin' business in a small way, wasn't it? But that is the only way to become a real lastin' statesman. I soon branched out. Two young men in the flat next to mine were school friends. I went to them, just as I went to Tommy, and they agreed to stand by me. Then I had a followin' of three voters and I began to get a bit chesty.
Page 106 - ... when applied to judicial proceedings. They then mean a course of legal proceedings according to those rules and principles which have been established in our systems of jurisprudence for the protection and enforcement of private rights.
Page 27 - From the days of Fenton and Conkling, and Arthur, and Cornell, and Platt, from the days of David B. Hill, down to the present time, the government of the state has presented two different lines of activity, one of the constitutional and statutory officers of the state, and the other of the party leaders — they call them party bosses. They call the system — I don't coin the phrase, I adopt it because it carries its own meaning — the system they call 'invisible government.