By the People: Arguments and Authorities for Direct Legislation Or the Initiative and the Referendum |
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... favor of the Initiative and Ref- erendum as purely democratic , as conser- vative of order , as a social safety - valve , and what is more , as a peaceful way to a speedy political revolution which may lift our legislation from the ...
... favor of the Initiative and Ref- erendum as purely democratic , as conser- vative of order , as a social safety - valve , and what is more , as a peaceful way to a speedy political revolution which may lift our legislation from the ...
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... favors its adoption in law- making . Referendum " planks " have ap- peared in State Democratic and Republi- can platforms . Every year , following the efforts of its supporters , an in- creasing number of special State and municipal ...
... favors its adoption in law- making . Referendum " planks " have ap- peared in State Democratic and Republi- can platforms . Every year , following the efforts of its supporters , an in- creasing number of special State and municipal ...
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... favor of the referendum in legislation . The people are more to be trusted than their representatives . It is absolutely essential to the preser- vation of free institutions in this coun- try that the power of the lobby , which infests ...
... favor of the referendum in legislation . The people are more to be trusted than their representatives . It is absolutely essential to the preser- vation of free institutions in this coun- try that the power of the lobby , which infests ...
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... favor of direct legislation . people suffer under too many laws . Laws should be fewer in number , more simple and should be referred to the people , as is now done in the matter of constitutional amendments . This is not only practical ...
... favor of direct legislation . people suffer under too many laws . Laws should be fewer in number , more simple and should be referred to the people , as is now done in the matter of constitutional amendments . This is not only practical ...
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... favor it . In my political experi- ence , I have found that as I brought for- ward measures for the real benefit of the people , I lost more of the support of the su- perior classes and have had to rely on the masses , and I have found ...
... favor it . In my political experi- ence , I have found that as I brought for- ward measures for the real benefit of the people , I lost more of the support of the su- perior classes and have had to rely on the masses , and I have found ...
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Page 68 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 22 - Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Page 67 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government ; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.
Page 99 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 30 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Page 33 - Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable unalienable.
Page 67 - We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. The general government and the State governments derive their authority from the same source. Neither can, in relation to the other, be called primary, though one is definite and restricted and the other general and residuary.
Page 60 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 36 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Page 73 - Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. But do I see a handkerchief? Surely there is a white flutter over yonder." "Yes; it is your boy,