The Constitutional Review, Volume 9National Association for Constitutional Government, 1925 - Constitutional law Includes section "Book reviews". |
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... Executive Committee of the American Bar Association adopted a resolution requesting the newspapers to repeat the Contest , " to the end that the boys and girls in our schools , the hope of America - thoroughly grounded in the principles ...
... Executive Committee of the American Bar Association adopted a resolution requesting the newspapers to repeat the Contest , " to the end that the boys and girls in our schools , the hope of America - thoroughly grounded in the principles ...
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... executive , must enjoy the confidence of a majority of the legislative body , and occupies con- sequently a subordinate position to the legislature . Nevertheless it has independence in carrying out the ex- ecutive functions . ( b ) The ...
... executive , must enjoy the confidence of a majority of the legislative body , and occupies con- sequently a subordinate position to the legislature . Nevertheless it has independence in carrying out the ex- ecutive functions . ( b ) The ...
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... executive power , a substitute has been found in the plebiscite . All laws , excepting those relating to foreign policy and taxation , are subject to plebiscite if during two months one - third of the legal number of members of the Par ...
... executive power , a substitute has been found in the plebiscite . All laws , excepting those relating to foreign policy and taxation , are subject to plebiscite if during two months one - third of the legal number of members of the Par ...
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... executive elected for a fixed period . The Government consists of the Head of the State , called " Riigivanem , " state head or president , and minis- ters , the number of whom is fixed by special law . The State Assembly forms the ...
... executive elected for a fixed period . The Government consists of the Head of the State , called " Riigivanem , " state head or president , and minis- ters , the number of whom is fixed by special law . The State Assembly forms the ...
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... executives , with only one difference - his term of office is not limited to a certain num- ber of years , but continues so ... executive has also no power of dissolving the parliament . During the new Constitution there have been four ...
... executives , with only one difference - his term of office is not limited to a certain num- ber of years , but continues so ... executive has also no power of dissolving the parliament . During the new Constitution there have been four ...
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Page 151 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 237 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 229 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation...
Page 58 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
Page 237 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 238 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We. have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 165 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument, of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Page 151 - Under the doctrine of Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, we think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
Page 7 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 27 - The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence.