 If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from...  Commentaries on Universal Public Law - Strona 252autor: George Bowyer - 1854 - Liczba stron: 387Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - Liczba stron: 1092
...relation to the same subject, says : "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...bestow that name on, a government which derives all it* pavers directly or indirectly from the great body of the peofd"." * * ult is essential to such... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1851 - Liczba stron: 620
...established, we may define a republic о be, or at least may bestow that name on a Government irhich derives all its powers, directly or indirectly, from the great body of the people." * * • • ' 'It is essential to such a Government that it be lerived from the great body oflhe society,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - Liczba stron: 714
...tory one would ever be found. If we resort for ' a criterion to the different principles on which ' different forms of government are established, we...powers, directly or indirectly, from the great body 1 of the people." According to this definition a Republican Government cannot mean one where one-half... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 504
...used in political disquisitions. If we resort, for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...bestow that name on, a government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1859 - Liczba stron: 604
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on a govern, ment which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - Liczba stron: 602
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...administered by persons holding their offices during pica. mire, for a limited period, or during good behaviour," &c. — Federalist, No. 39. Thus his vote... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1868 - Liczba stron: 604
...republican theory. '' If," he wrote, '' we report for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on a govern, ment which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body af the people,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876 - Liczba stron: 578
...formal definition of a Republic: — " If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...or at least may bestow that name on, a government whiclt derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - Liczba stron: 612
...republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we...powers directly or indirectly from the great body »f the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | 1879 - Liczba stron: 582
...American government may be said iu general terms to be republican, in that all its powers are derived directly or indirectly from the great body of the...by persons holding their offices during pleasure, or for a limited period or during good behavior. A closer survey and examination of its different departments,... | |
| |
