Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 18.- Tonight, for the fourth consecutive time, Harvard won from Princeton in their annual debate. The question was: "Resolved, That, assuming the adoption of adequate constitutional amendments, the United States should institute a system of responsible cabinet government." Princeton supported the affirmative and Harvard the negative...
...Phelps, our late Minister to England, has said, "the two systems are not interchangeable; each is best where it is." The Cabinet system, all the eminent commentators agree cannot be introduced into this country...
Charles Grilk '98 was the last Harvard speaker, his opening remarks being devoted to rebuttal and an attempt to parry the most formidable arguments of his opponents. He said that the Cabinet system cannot work in this country because of the difference in the circumstances surrounding the government and the difference in the social conditions of the people. In England, Cabinet government was evolved in the struggle between the King and the people. The people had to have centralized leadership to compete with the centralized power of the King. It was a work of reform rather than of creation...
Frank O. White '99 continued the debate for Harvard. He argued that the Cabinet system would make the Government unstable, that it would work poorly with three or more parties, and that it would open the door to socialism...
...Cabinet system of government would have affected us. During the last twenty years we would have had at least five distinct and complete changes in our Government under the Cabinet system, whereas under our own system we have had but one complete change of party control. And that change was a gradual change. We have had a far more stable Government than would have been possible under the Cabinet system...