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" I should have preferred that this provision should have gone further, and required the President to select his constitutional advisers from the Senate and House of Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament,... "
The War Not for Emancipation - Page 68
by Garrett Davis - 1862 - 78 pages
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Echoes from the South: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 220 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in...facility to change its administration. Ours, as it is 5 is a great approximation to the right principle. Under the old Constitution a Secretary of the Treasury,...
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Echoes from the South: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 228 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in...feature that saves that government. It is that which givea it stability in its facility to change its administration. Ours, as it is, is a great approximation...
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Life of Alexander H. Stephens

Richard Malcolm Johnston, William Hand Browne - 1883 - 732 pages
...judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is the only feature Un,t saves that government. It is that which gives it stability...Constitution, a Secretary of the Treasury, for instance, hud no opportunity, save by his annual reports, of presenting any scheme or plan of finance or other...
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Life of Alexander H. Stephens

Richard Malcolm Johnston, William Hand Browne - Confederate States of America - 1883 - 658 pages
...British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is the only feature that saves that government....the right principle. " Under the old Constitution, a Seeretary of the Treasury, for instance, had no opportunity, save by his annual reports, of presenting...
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Representative American Orations to Illustrate American Political ..., Volume 3

Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1884 - 430 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is the only feature that saves that government. It is that which gives it stability...
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VII. Civil war and reconstruction. VIII. Free trade and protection. IX ...

Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is the only feature that saves that government. It is that which gives it stability...
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Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six ...

Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament ; which in my judgment is one of the wisest provisions in the British Constitution. . . . Another change in the Constitution relates to the length of the tenure of the Presidential...
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Select Orations Illustrating American Political History

Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which in my judgment is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is that which gives it stability, in its facility to change its administration. Ours,...
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Eloquent Sons of the South: A Handbook of Southern Oratory, Volume 2

John Temple Graves, Clark Howell, Walter Williams - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 328 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British constitution. It is the only feature that saves that government. It is that which gives it stability...
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Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861

Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1996 - 456 pages
...Representatives. That would have conformed entirely to the practice in the British Parliament, which, in my judgment, is one of the wisest provisions in the British Constitution. It is the only feature that saves that Government. It is that which gives it stability...
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