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...Cong. Rec. 49th Cong. 1st Sess. 1879, Pt. I, 987, 1002-1003, 1026-1028; U. S. Stat. 1878 XX. 37; supplement to U. S. Rev. Stat. I, 485; Boston Med. and Surg. J'l, Sept. 22 and Sept. 29; Miller's Constitutional Law, pp. 480, 452; Cooley's Const'l Limitations...
...State Banks are an evasion of the Constitution: Const., Art. 1, Sec. 10; Rhode's Journal of Banking, Aug. 1891; Briscoe vs. Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky; Peters...
...change is ineffective. - (a) Mere right of debate would not enable cabinet to direct legislation: Snow, 123; Morrill, 424; Von Holst, Const. Law, Section 26. - (b) Information about the affairs of departments would not be more available. - (1) Cabinet officers would be under no compulsion to impart all their knowledge; Nation, XVI, 234. - 12) They could not be expected to furnish detailed information on demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good...
...President, for criticism would indirectly injure him.- (b) Business of departments would suffer from absence of heads; Morrill, 424. - (c) It would force President to appoint cabinet officers for parliamentary ability rather than for executive power; Nation, XXVIII, 243. - (d) It would increase party dissensions: Cox, 438; Hare, Const. Law, I, 178. - (e) Serious complications would arise when executive and legislative were of different parties...
...change is contrary to the spirit, if not to the letter, of the constitution. - (a) Cabinet was intended to furnish advisors to President, and not to become a party machine; Von Holst, Const. Law, 91. - (b) The executive, with cabinet, was not intended to be allied to Congress, but to be a a check or balance; Thayer, 446; Hare, I, 180. - (c) It is fundamental in a democracy that the people should move the government, not that any body of men should control legislation; Snow...