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Contents
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FUNDAMENTALS AND THEIR FORCE | 177 |
PLACES OR POPULATION | 331 |
APPORTIONMENT UNDER THE UNION | 356 |
DISTRICTS | 380 |
CORRUPT PRACTICES IN ELECTIONS | 405 |
THEORIES OF REPRESENTATION | 434 |
INSTRUCTIONS IN CONGRESS | 460 |
INDEPENDENCE v RESPONSIBILITY | 492 |
THE RIGHT OF PETITION | 514 |
REPRESENTATION | 197 |
MAJORITY AND PLURALITY | 220 |
MINORITIES | 247 |
OCCUPATIONAL REPRESENTATION | 269 |
FRANCHISE TESTS | 287 |
THE SUFFRAGE | 311 |
PUBLIC OPINION | 535 |
THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM | 563 |
THE REFERENDUM | 599 |
INDEX | 637 |
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Popular passages
Page 456 - I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
Page 457 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Page 36 - The only way to erect such a common power as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort as that by their own industry and by the fruits of the earth they may nourish themselves and live contentedly...
Page 36 - ... confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills by plurality of voices unto one will...
Page 223 - ... it is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it, which is the consent of the majority...
Page 133 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 40 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.
Page 37 - God to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to form the wills of them all to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad.
Page 37 - I authorise and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Legislative Principles: The History and Theory of Lawmaking by Representative Government Science of legislation, Robert Luce |
| Author | Robert Luce |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006 |
| ISBN | 1584775432, 9781584775430 |
| Length | 667 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Law / Reference Political Science / American Government / Legislative Branch |
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