The People's Law: Or, Popular Participation in Law-making from Ancient Folk-moot to Modern Referendum; a Study in the Evolution of Democracy and Direct Legislation |
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... electors . If approved by them it should become the supreme law of the state . This pro- cedure , however , was almost out of the question in most of the colonies . " Thorpe , I , 121 . 2 Jameson , " Constitutional Conventions " ( 4th ...
... electors . If approved by them it should become the supreme law of the state . This pro- cedure , however , was almost out of the question in most of the colonies . " Thorpe , I , 121 . 2 Jameson , " Constitutional Conventions " ( 4th ...
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... electors or of any discussion as to the right or expediency of so doing . We have seen that New Hamp- shire's experience in popular legislation was less extensive than that which prepared her sister colonies of southern New England for ...
... electors or of any discussion as to the right or expediency of so doing . We have seen that New Hamp- shire's experience in popular legislation was less extensive than that which prepared her sister colonies of southern New England for ...
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... electors of April , 1776 , no more than the legislators of July , 1775 , not thinking of independence and a permanent republic , could not mean to vest in these delegates powers of establishing them , or any authorities other than those ...
... electors of April , 1776 , no more than the legislators of July , 1775 , not thinking of independence and a permanent republic , could not mean to vest in these delegates powers of establishing them , or any authorities other than those ...
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... electors ; for the instrument closes with the significant provision : ^ — " It is proposed that the above bill , after correction by the Convention , shall be referred by them to the people to be assembled in their respective counties ...
... electors ; for the instrument closes with the significant provision : ^ — " It is proposed that the above bill , after correction by the Convention , shall be referred by them to the people to be assembled in their respective counties ...
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... electors have a right to pass on a newly framed constitution . Thus Mr. Justice Nelson says : 1- " It is confessedly the assent of the people which gives validity to a constitution . May not the people then , by a subsequent ...
... electors have a right to pass on a newly framed constitution . Thus Mr. Justice Nelson says : 1- " It is confessedly the assent of the people which gives validity to a constitution . May not the people then , by a subsequent ...
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Page 244 - ... then it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people...
Page 244 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Page 173 - ... found necessary — the General Court, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall issue precepts to the Selectmen of the several towns, and to the Assessors of the unincorporated plantations, directing them to convene the qualified voters of their respective towns and plantations for the purpose of collecting their sentiments on the necessity or expediency of revising the Constitution, in order to amendments.
Page 178 - In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 70 - ... enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 173 - In order the more effectually to adhere to the principles of the Constitution, and to correct those violations which by any means may be made therein, as well as to form such alterations as from experience shall be found necessary...
Page 319 - ... amendments, the same shall become a part of the constitution. When more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same time, they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately.
Page 79 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Page 81 - England, together with full power and authority to rule themselves, and such others as shall hereafter inhabit within any part of the said tract of land, by such a form of civil government, as by voluntary consent of all, or a greater part of them, they shall find most suitable to their estate and condition...
Page 149 - To the End that Laws, before they are enacted, may be more maturely considered, and the Inconvenience of hasty Determinations • as much as possible prevented, all Bills of a public Nature shall be printed for the Consideration of the People...