Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the last Congressional election in November, 1922, there were not more than 50 pro-labor and forward-looking Congressmen. Labor and Progressive Republicans and Democrats threw themselves into the primary and election campaigns and elected 170 members of the Nation's House of Representatives. These are distributed among the various parties as follows: Democrats, 105; Republicans, 63; Farmer-Labor, 1; Independent, 1; total, 170 - an increase of 120 Congressmen in one election. The reëlection of these 170 and the election of 80 more Congressmen representing the people will bring the people a safe working majority...
...Senators in the Senate 65 are lawyers and former judges, as are also 300 of the 435 Congressmen. In round figures two-thirds of both Houses of Congress are lawyers, and it is perfectly safe to say that among these 350 odd lawyers and judges in the two branches of Congress there are many better lawyers or at least as good lawyers as are now on the Supreme Bench of the nation. . . . Yes, it would be safe to say that there are more good lawyers in the House and Senate today than have sat on the Supreme Bench...
There are nearly 200 Congressmen and Senators who represent other professions, other business interests and employments and in their many lines of thought and experience they have developed reason and logic and many of them are as capable of solving our problems of government and general welfare as are the lawyers and the judges. . . . Many of these Congressmen and Senators are men who were educated in the University of Hard Knocks, and they are just as well qualified to think and vote on such questions of general welfare as the income tax or child slavery or other forms of slavery...
...took us eighteen years to add the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution to right the wrong done by the fallible judge who changed his mind one night on the income tax. Recently we have had the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressmen and two-thirds of the Senators repudiate the decision of a fifth fallible judge on the question of child slavery: and now we are in the midst of submitting to the 48 states the humane. God-given amendment in behalf of the childhood of the nation. . . . How much better it would be if the Constitution...
...those presenting the though that the bulwark of our liberty is in the Supreme Court with power granted the fifth judge to nullify or ratify the legislative act of 531 Congressmen and Senators, whose combined conscience and intelligence ought to be 531 times as great as that of such a judge. I reply that Great Britian has for centuries promoted democracy and liberty and she has never had a constitution to be reviewed or repudiated by any kind of a Supreme Court. Even the House of Lords is today subject to the will of the House of Commons, and Goldwin...