Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, chs. 51, 52; H. C. Adams, Public Debts, 343-375; A. P. Wilder, The Municipal Problem; Johns Hopkins Studies, extra vol. II, 264-295; Joseph Chamberlain in Forum, XIV, 267; Report of National Conference for Good City Government, 1894; Bibliographies of Municipal Government in preceding report, and in Providence Public Library Bulletin...
...Existing municipal evils do not justify a radical change in the suffrage. - (a) Improvement is being made on other lines: Bryce, Vol. 1, 619. - (b) Existing evils are due chiefly to causes apart from the suffrage. - (1) To the absence of municipal ideals. - (2) To the indifference of the "better classes." - (3) To mixing national and state with city politics. - (4) To excessive interference by legislatures in local affairs. - (5) To unsatisfactory charter arrangements. - (6) To corrupt influence of property owners, corporations and rich men: Adams, Public Debts, p. 365. - (c) Businesslike administration and present broad suffrage are not necessarily...
...party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes of party; in a word, instability and inefficiency in the government. De Tocqueville and Bryce have noticed these evils. The Confederate States recognized them and one of the changes they made in our constitution was to give the President six years and make him ineligible for re-election...
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, I, chapter viii ("Election of the President." - "Re-election of the President.") - James Bryce, American Commonwealth (3d edition), I, 44-51, 61-66, II, 131-140, 203-219. - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, SS 1430-1449. - Edward Stanwood, Presidential Elections (especially on elections of 1796, 1804, 1812, 1832, 1864, 1872, 1888, 1892). - Woodrow Wilson, The State, SS 1047-1120. - Albert Bushnell Hart, Practical Essays on American Government, No. iii. - Lucy Salmon, History of the Appointing Power of the President (Papers of the American Historical Association, Vol. I). - John W. Burgess, Political Science...
...Bull then closed the debate for the Union. He claimed that few fair comparisons had been made, and quoted Bryce as saying, "Bribery is rare in the United States Senate." Most of his remarks consisted of rebuttal and concluded with an admirable summing up of the arguments for the affirmative. His speaking was noticeable for its ability...