The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government, Količina 1Jazzybee Verlag, 1920 - 248 strani Professor Bryce’s work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called the most considerable and gratifying tribute that has yet been bestowed upon America by an Englishman, and, perhaps, by even England herself. . . . One despairs in an attempt to give an adequate account of a work so infused with knowledge and sparkling with Suggestion. Every thoughtful American will read it, and will long hold in grateful remembrance its author’s name. It is a work that takes instant rank as the keenest critique and most trustworthy description of America’s social and political life and is recognized as the most remarkable among English books for the accuracy of its statements, its fairness of judgment, and its clearness of comprehension. Written with full knowledge by a distinguished Englishman to dispel vulgar prejudices and to help kindred people to understand each other better, Prof. Bryce’s work is in a sense an embassy of peace, a message of good-will from one nation to another. This is volume one out of four, “The National Government”. |
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INTRODUCTORY | 1 |
THE NATION AND THE STATES | 8 |
THE ORIGIN OF THE CONSTITUTION | 11 |
NATURE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT | 17 |
THE PRESIDENT | 21 |
PRESIDENTIAL POWERS AND DUTIES | 29 |
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESIDENCY | 38 |
WHY GREAT MEN ARE NOT CHOSEN PRESIDENTS | 42 |
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON CONGRESS | 108 |
THE RELATIONS OF CONGRESS TO THE PRESIDENT118 | 118 |
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE EXECUTIVE | 122 |
THE FEDERAL COURTS | 129 |
THE COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION | 136 |
THE WORKING OF THE COURTS | 147 |
COMPARISON OF THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SYSTEMS | 156 |
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE FRAME OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | 167 |
THE CABINET | 47 |
THE SENATE | 53 |
THE SENATE AS AN EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BODY58 | 58 |
ITS WORKING AND INFLUENCE | 60 |
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | 69 |
THE HOUSE AT WORK | 79 |
THE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS | 86 |
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION | 93 |
CONGRESSIONAL FINANCE | 99 |
THE RELATIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES | 104 |
THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 175 |
WORKING RELATIONS OF THE NATIONAL AND THE STATE GOVERNMENTS | 182 |
CRITICISM OF THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 191 |
MERITS OF THE FEDERAL SYSTEM | 196 |
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION | 201 |
THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION | 204 |
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION208 | 208 |
THE RESULTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 223 |
NOTE TO CHAPTER XXVII THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH | 239 |
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