THE

EXECUTIVE POWER

IN THE

UNITED STATES:

A STUDY OF

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

BY

ADOLPHE DE CHAMBRUN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH

BY

MRS. MADELEINE VINTON DAHLGREN.

Votes cannot INSURE equal rights to all.

Taxes are, or should be, paid to support the institutions
of society-not for the purpose of placing certain mom an
office.

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PREFACE.

IT will be generally conceded that the most profound

ERRATA.

Preface, p. 1, line 14, for "have" read "prove;" line 15, for "experiments" read "experiment."

Chapter II., page 52, line 8, for "Russa" read "Russia."
P. 122, line 9, for "repell" read "repel."

P. 127, line 12, interpolate the between "executive" and "preponderating."

P. 176, line 14, for ca ira read ça ira.

P. 7, Opinions of the Press, line 30, for "open" read "pen."

the fact that many of the characteristics and tendencies of a nation are better understood and appreciated by foreigners than by native citizens. The foreign student has an advantage in the stand-point from which he makes his observation. He studies the institutions from a distance, and is able to measure them by other standards with less bias, perhaps, than those whose opinions have become a part of the public thought of