The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political PathologyContains the substance of lectures delivered at Columbia University during 1909 which focused on budgetary issues such as, the growth of expenditure, creating a national budget, constitutional agencies of budget control, and political conditions of budgeting. |
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The Cost of Our National Government A Study in Political Pathology Henry Jones Ford Visos knygos peržiūra - 1910 |
The Cost of Our National Government A Study in Political Pathology Henry Jones Ford Visos knygos peržiūra - 1910 |
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66 psl. - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
23 psl. - The House of Representatives can not only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of Government. They, in a word, hold the purse...
24 psl. - Against the force of the immediate Representatives of the People, nothing will be able to maintain even the Constitutional authority of the Senate, but such a display of enlightened policy, and attachment to the public good, as will divide with that branch of the Legislature the affections and support of the entire body of the People themselves.
45 psl. - ... of a respectable majority. In those emergencies of a nation in which the goodness or badness, the weakness or strength, of its government is of the greatest importance, there is commonly a necessity for action. The public business must in some way or other go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority...
23 psl. - This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.
113 psl. - It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal ; the means ought to be proportioned to the end ; the persons, from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
54 psl. - It shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue, or of any tax or impost, to any purpose that has not been first recommended to that House by message of the Governor General in the session in which such vote, resolution, address, or bill is proposed.
54 psl. - This House will receive no petition for any sum relating to public service, or proceed upon any motion for a grant or charge upon the public revenue, whether payable out of the consolidated fund or out of money to be provided by Parliament, unless recommended from the Crown.
83 psl. - It may be that such control would better be exercised in particular instances by the government of the States, but the people will have the control they need either from the States or from the national government, and if the States fail to furnish it in due measure, sooner or later constructions of the Constitution will be found to vest the power where it will be exercised in the national...
83 psl. - The intervention of the national government in many of the matters which it has recently undertaken would have been wholly unnecessary if the states themselves had been alive to their duty toward the general body of the country.
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| Pavadinimas | The Cost of Our National Government A Study in Political Pathology Columbia University Lectures Columbia University lectures: Blumenthal lectures Columbia university lectures. George Blumenthal foundation |
| Autorius | Henry Jones Ford |
| Leidėjas | Columbia University Press, 1910 |
| Originalas iš | Harvardo universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 12 balandžio 2008 |
| ISBN | 0231932626, 9780231932622 |
| Ilgis | 147 psl. |
| Eksportuoti šaltinį | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |