Argument in Opposition to Henry A. Du Pont's Claim to the Office of United States Senator for the State of DelawareB.H. Tyrrel, 1896 - 70 pages |
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American system appointed argument arise become governor become vacant Charles Polk clause common law constitution of 1792 constitution of Delaware court declares Delaware constitution Delaware senate disqualified Du Pont duly qualified duties elective governor executive and legislative executive department executive power exercise the office fact governor elected governor of Delaware holding any office holding the office incompatibility of offices incompatible offices January January 15 John Bird joint assembly judge judiciary justice Kent county lative Law Dic legislative functions legislature liberty Madison ment Montesquieu office of governor office of senator office of speaker person holding person shall exercise Pont Pont's claim president pro tempore presiding officer prohibition proposition question resignation rule seat senate journal senate of Delaware senate shall exercise senator or representative senatorial office session Sheriff speaker pro tempore statute Stout suspended theory United States senator veto vice-president vote Watson words pro tempore writ
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Page 10 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 24 - No person being a member of Congress, or holding any judicial or military office under the United States, shall hold a seat in the Legislature. And if any person shall, after his election as a member of the Legislature, be elected to Congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, his acceptance thereof shall vacate his seat.
Page 15 - ... where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is 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.
Page 11 - The oracle who is always consulted and cited on this subject is the celebrated Montesquieu. If he be not the author of this invaluable precept in the science of politics, he has the merit at least of displaying and recommending it most effectually to the attention of mankind.
Page 16 - The true meaning is, that the whole power of one of these departments should not be exercised by the same hands which possess the whole power of either of the other departments ; and that such exercise of the whole would subvert the principles of a free constitution.
Page 17 - That the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other, and no person exercising the functions of one of said departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other.
Page 19 - The legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives...
Page 54 - In case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure to qualify, resignation, or other disability of the Governor, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office, for the remainder of the term, or until the disability be removed, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor.
Page 14 - The first section of the third article of the constitution declares that "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 10 - There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, that of executing the public resolutions, and of trying the causes of individuals.