An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of ParliamentCopp, Clark Company, Limited, 1892 - 176 páginas |
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... hand , however slightly in each case , the opposite party may be almost excluded from repre- sentation in the assembly . How misleading , therefore , it is to assume that the majority in Parliament represents the aggregate public ...
... hand , however slightly in each case , the opposite party may be almost excluded from repre- sentation in the assembly . How misleading , therefore , it is to assume that the majority in Parliament represents the aggregate public ...
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... hands of a committee of a party - not a committee of the nation ; and it is to this condition that we may trace the chronic political difficulties from which we are suffering , and which we would greatly lessen , if not entirely remove ...
... hands of a committee of a party - not a committee of the nation ; and it is to this condition that we may trace the chronic political difficulties from which we are suffering , and which we would greatly lessen , if not entirely remove ...
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... fain hope that the era is coming - is at hand - when Party having done that great task will itself be at an end . " OTTAWA , April 7th , 1892 . SANDFORD FLEMING . APPENDIX . THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF PARTY . From 32 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE .
... fain hope that the era is coming - is at hand - when Party having done that great task will itself be at an end . " OTTAWA , April 7th , 1892 . SANDFORD FLEMING . APPENDIX . THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF PARTY . From 32 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE .
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... hands , as the struggle became more and more violent . This , in pro- cess of time , must lead to party organization , and party caucuses and discipline ; and these , to the conversion of the honors and emoluments of the government into ...
... hands , as the struggle became more and more violent . This , in pro- cess of time , must lead to party organization , and party caucuses and discipline ; and these , to the conversion of the honors and emoluments of the government into ...
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... hand will always be the weakest , that is , the most unpopular , not the worst ; and on the other hand , the measures brought forward will be the most popular rather than the best . That popularity and unpopularity often coincide with ...
... hand will always be the weakest , that is , the most unpopular , not the worst ; and on the other hand , the measures brought forward will be the most popular rather than the best . That popularity and unpopularity often coincide with ...
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Página 152 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 140 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear. The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 21 - I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government.
Página 29 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Página 70 - to secure the blessings of liberty" to the people of the United States in the year 1787, and their posterity after them.
Página 99 - ... and with this encouragement such persons might be expected to offer themselves, in numbers hitherto undreamt of. Hundreds of able men of independent thought, who would have no chance whatever of being chosen by the majority of any existing constituency, have by their writings, or their exertions in some field of public usefulness, made themselves known and approved by a few persons in almost every district of the kingdom...
Página 43 - ... nation, though a majority of that portion of it, whom the institutions of the country have erected into a ruling class. If democracy means the certain ascendancy of the majority, there are no means of insuring that, but by) allowing every individual figure to tell equally in the summing up. Any minority left out, either purposely or by the play of the machinery, gives the power not to a majority, but to a minority in some other part of | the scale.
Página 106 - Now, nothing is more certain than that the virtual blotting-out of the minority is no necessary or natural consequence of freedom; that, far from having any connection with democracy, it is diametrically opposed to the first principle of democracy, representation in proportion to numbers. It is an essential part of democracy that minorities should be adequately represented. No real democracy, nothing but a false show of democracy, is possible without it.
Página 147 - ... be entered on the journals of the two houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the general court then next to be chosen, and shall be published...
Página 48 - En Romanos rerum dominos !" Behold the masters of the world begging from door to door. This particular humble way to greatness is now out of fashion ; but yet every ambitious person is still, in some sort, a Roman candidate. He must feast and bribe, and attend and flatter, and adore many beasts, though not the beast with many heads. Catiline, who was so proud that he could not content...