ConstitutionsOxford University Press, American Branch, 1905 - 341 strani Six essays extracted from the author's "Studies in history and jurisprudence", published in 1901 -- Preface. |
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Stran 323 - ... the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also, if her majesty is satisfied that the people of Western Australia have agreed thereto, of Western Australia, shall be united in a federal commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Stran 190 - ... inspired by a supposed influence over the people with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude; yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department, that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.
Stran 291 - XXIV. The service and execution throughout the Commonwealth of the civil and criminal process and the judgments of the courts of the States. XXV. The recognition throughout the Commonwealth of the laws, the public acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of the States.
Stran 190 - ... the other. But this objection will have little weight with those who can properly estimate the mischiefs of that inconstancy and mutability in the laws, which form the greatest blemish in the character and genius of our governments.
Stran 190 - Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.
Stran 317 - No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation of any State in either house of the parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a State in the house of representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise altering the limits of the State, or in any manner affecting the provisions of the constitution in relation thereto shall become law unless the majority of the electors voting in that State approve the proposed law.
Stran 191 - Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State ; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion...
Stran 191 - The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
Stran 187 - Here the writers against the constitution seem to have taken pains to signalize their talent of misrepresentation. Calculating upon the aversion of the people to monarchy, they have endeavored to enlist all their jealousies and apprehensions in opposition to the intended president of the United States; not merely as the embryo, but as the full-grown progeny .of that detested parent.
Stran 306 - Court shall certify that the question is one which ought to be determined by the King in Council.