Word: bryce
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Parke vs. winner Bryce-Gray match...
Beaman and Bryce vs. Holt and Ward...
...Bryce vs. H. G. Gray...
...better men.- (1) Mere popular demagogues cannot secure election by state legislatures.- cf. character of senators and governors.- (B) Corruption, urged as an objction to the present system, would be merely increased by popular election of senators.- (1) Bribing in direct election is as easy as in indirect elctions: (bryce II, 137 seq.).- (2) It is more demoralizing.- (3) The Senators would be elected by the corrupt element of the states.- (a) The cities, where most corruption exists, would have greater influence (Bryce 516-17).- (C) The district system enables the honest portion of the state to overbalance the dishonest...
...desirable continuity is given to the Senate by legislative election.- (A) The present method tends to reelection-two-thirds of all elections to the Senate being re-elections (Bryce, 192).- (B) It affords the legislative department of our government greater experience with important affairs, especially our foreign policy.- (C).- election would be less frequesnt by popular election.- (1) The people believe in the rotationof office (Bryce, 128-9); as illustrated in the case of our governors and congressmen 9Bryce...