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Page lvii
... difficulty keeps him where he is . At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M. Thiers " the deluge , " and he lives upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in practice all but impossible ; because ...
... difficulty keeps him where he is . At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M. Thiers " the deluge , " and he lives upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in practice all but impossible ; because ...
Page lxvii
... difficulty under it of maintaining a surplus revenue to discharge debt , and this defect Presidential Government escapes , though at the cost of being likely to maintain that sur- plus upon inexpedient occasions as well as upon ...
... difficulty under it of maintaining a surplus revenue to discharge debt , and this defect Presidential Government escapes , though at the cost of being likely to maintain that sur- plus upon inexpedient occasions as well as upon ...
Page lxviii
... difficulty , it is accompanied by the greatest evils ; if it had not been so , it would have been the regular device in such cases , and the difficulty would have been no difficulty at all ; there would have been a known easy way out of ...
... difficulty , it is accompanied by the greatest evils ; if it had not been so , it would have been the regular device in such cases , and the difficulty would have been no difficulty at all ; there would have been a known easy way out of ...
Page 17
... difficulty been felt that a semi - connection has grown up between the legislature and the executive . When the Secretary of the Treasury of the Federal Government wants a tax he consults upon it with the Chairman of the Financial ...
... difficulty been felt that a semi - connection has grown up between the legislature and the executive . When the Secretary of the Treasury of the Federal Government wants a tax he consults upon it with the Chairman of the Financial ...
Page 22
... difficulty oppresses the press which op- presses the legislature . It can do nothing . It cannot change the administration ; the executive was elected for such and such years , and for such and such years it must last . People wonder ...
... difficulty oppresses the press which op- presses the legislature . It can do nothing . It cannot change the administration ; the executive was elected for such and such years , and for such and such years it must last . People wonder ...
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