Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FLERSHEM.PROSPECT UNION.- Several copies of volume 1 of Bryce's "American Commonwealth" are wanted for a class in Government in the Prospect Union. Copies loaned will be well taken care of. Leave at CRIMSON office...
Best general references: J. B. McMaster, Forum XX, p. 257; D. B. Eaton, N. Am. Rev., 154, p. 691; Nat. I. Review, XI, p. 377; Bryce, Am. Commonwealth, Vol. I, Chaps. V, VI, VII; Horace White, Lecture on Third Term Dangerous...
...Expediency does not call for the breaking of these principles. A. Efficient men are readily found to fill the position. McMaster, Forum, XX, 265. B. The maintenance of a steady policy does not require it. (1) The foreign policy is controlled more by natural the President. (Bryce). (2) The home policy is mainly controlled by congress. (3) Continuance of the same policy depends upon the continued supremacy of the same party and not upon the re-election of the same president...
...trust more and more either to the help of bosses and machines or to the love of the people. (b.) In the first the tendency is toward the stealing of the people's power by one class: in the second, the people transfer their power to a popular idol. (Bryce p. 69.) (2.) Frequent change of President is essential to a republican government. (a.) By change alone, is the interest and responsibility of the people in the government maintained. (b.) Continued re-election of the same man is the beginning of the resignation of self government...
Best general references: James Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-137; J. G. Carlisle, The Limitations of the Speaker, No. Am. Rev. 150: 382 et seq.; A. B. Hart, The Speaker as Premier in his Practical Essays, No. R. Q. Mills No. Am. Rev., 149: 664-670. T. Nelson, The Powers of the Speaker, Atlantic Mon., LXIV: 64 et seq.; Arena, V, 569-579 (Apr.); Johns Hopkins University Studies, XI, No. 2, The Speaker of the House of Representatives...