Word: constitutionalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beck's vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...
Conservatives . . 534 Labor 509 Liberals 330 Constitutionalist 10 Other Parties...
...same time, though the party is in office it is not quite in power and it must perforce rule with the tacit consent of the two traditional parties. The fact that its leaders agree with Sidney Webb on the "inevitability of gradual-ness", that Premier MacDonald is a constitutionalist, rather than a Marxianist, make it probable that this consent will not soon be retracted. Unlike its neighbors across the Channel, England's greatest revolutions have taken place in the quiet course of constitutional development. It is a testimony to the permanence and strength of the labor movement that...