Progressive PrinciplesProgressive national service, 1913 - 330 pages |
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Page 21
... fuse the will of the majority , the majority may step in and legislate directly . No man would say that it was best to conduct all legislation by direct vote of • the people - it would mean the loss of Right of the People to Rule 21.
... fuse the will of the majority , the majority may step in and legislate directly . No man would say that it was best to conduct all legislation by direct vote of • the people - it would mean the loss of Right of the People to Rule 21.
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... vote of the ma- jority before he finishes his term . I will speak of the recall of judges in a moment - leave that aside- but as to the other officers , I have heard no argument . advanced against the proposition , save that it will ...
... vote of the ma- jority before he finishes his term . I will speak of the recall of judges in a moment - leave that aside- but as to the other officers , I have heard no argument . advanced against the proposition , save that it will ...
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... vote of the people , taken after due time for consideration . And I contend that the people , in the nature of ... voted most of a recent speech to criticism of this proposition . He says that it " is utterly without merit or utility ...
... vote of the people , taken after due time for consideration . And I contend that the people , in the nature of ... voted most of a recent speech to criticism of this proposition . He says that it " is utterly without merit or utility ...
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... votes on different laws by temporary and changing majori- ties " ; and that " it lays the axe at the root of the ... vote of the people ? The people must know better than the court what their own morality and their own opinion is . I ...
... votes on different laws by temporary and changing majori- ties " ; and that " it lays the axe at the root of the ... vote of the people ? The people must know better than the court what their own morality and their own opinion is . I ...
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... vote , not as a representa- tive of a class , but merely as a good citizen , whose prime interests are the same as those of all other good citizens . The belief in different classes , each having a voice in the Government , has given ...
... vote , not as a representa- tive of a class , but merely as a good citizen , whose prime interests are the same as those of all other good citizens . The belief in different classes , each having a voice in the Government , has given ...
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Page 14 - That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same...
Page 66 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 48 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the •world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Page 22 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 14 - No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Page 48 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 134 - This relative matter of national power and State rights, as a principle, is no other than the principle of generality and locality. Whatever concerns the whole should be confided to the whole — to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State.
Page 42 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 95 - this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Page 197 - The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.