Word: formed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such harmony is not essential; (a) our form of government is one of checks and balances; (b) our constitution secures as much harmony between the departments as is consistent with their independence-Morrill's Speech, thirty-eighth congress, second session...
...requires: (a) a change in the position of the two independent houses, and the subserviency of one to the other, (b) a cabinet chosen from the majority; (c) the resignation of the cabinet after defeat; (d) the power to order dissolution, and a new election, and the ability to form an accurate index of public opinion from the result; (e) pressure on the states, on the courts, and the fusion of of executive and legislative deportments:- Von Holst a Constitutional Law, sections 25 and 26; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 57, p. 180; Bryce's American Commonwealth...
...responsible ministry would revolutionize our present form of government, and would be foreign to the spirit of our constitution:- Hare's American Constitutional Law, vol. 1, pp. 175-180; Overland Monthly, vol. 9, pp. 209, 210; Freeman's Presidnntial Government...
...question lies at the basis of democratic government. There are two standpoints from which this question should be looked at the one, the advantages to the individual, and the other, the advantages to the government. Democratic government stands for individual opinion, and in this, differs from all other forms of government. Under the second head he read a short passage from Professor Sumner of Yale, to the effect that the lobby and its evils are fatal in their indifference to true democratic government. Mr. Torrey cited in support of this statement the great amounts of money which at every election...
...places are more fit than Sanders for the presentation of a Greek tragedy. Its form is strikingly like an ancient amphitheatre and in fact save for the second gallery is essentially a copy. The theatre, therefore, thoroughly adapted itself to the setting of the ancient stage. The floor before the stage was occupied as of old by the chorus about the altar, and from it an easy flight of marble steps led to the court before the palace of Clytemnestra. The palace itself was represented by the schene and paraschene of the stage. It is impossible to enter here into...