Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HUNTER AND E. C. JEWELL.Best general references: Bryce's American Common wealth I. 113; W. P. Garrison in Atlantic Monthly, LXVIII August 1891; 227, Public Opinion XII. Nos. 20, 21; (Feb. 20, 27. 1892); Nation, LIV. 44 - 45 (Jan. 21, 1892); Senator Turpie in Congressional Record, Dec. 17, 1891; J. Story, Commentaries, SS 703-705; Elliot's Debates...
...Popular elections would improve state and local governments: - (a) Local elections are influenced by national issues, as shown by. - (1) Lincoln - Douglas campaign: - (2) Philadelphia ring: Bryce, II. 367 - 384. (b) The present method facilitates bribery; e. g. California, Nevada, Colorado...
...proposed system would be u favorable to good government. - (a) The best legislatures consist of two houses chosen in different manners: Bryce, Ch. xii, xxv; Lowell's Essays on Govt., 97, - (1) The most intelligent nations are so governed. - (2) A nation is more thorougly represented both in radical and conservative tendencies. - (b) The change would weaken the union of state and national government: Bryce I.pp 110, 318; Boutney Studies in Const Law,p 120. - (1) would lead to proportionate representation. - (2) The legislation is the most fit representative of the state. - (c) The change would offer more encouragement...
...prize, a copy of Bryce's "American Commonwealth," was awarded to E. C. Cameron '92. Other good speakers were Vrooman '95, Bull '95, and Wolff '92. The judges were L. Roots '91, Brooks L. S., and Gillette...
Letters heartily approving the scheme were read from Prof. Bryce, M. P., author of the "American Commonwealth;" Justin McCarthy, M. P.; Prof. Andrew Lang; Mr. Blackmore, the novelist; Archdeacon Farrar, Prof. Huxley and other persons eminent in literature...