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Best general references: Sidgewick's Elements of Politics, - 403-420; Bryce's Amer. Commonwealth I. ch. IX; Dr. Snow in Amer. Hist. Asso'n Papers IV. 107-128; A. Lawrence Lowell's Essay's on Government; Hare's Const...
...Cabinet System tends towards dangerous concentration of power: - (a) The members are chosen from the two legislative branches: Sidgewick's Elements of Politics, 403. - (b) Single assembly in England free to exercise full powers over the constitution: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers, IV. III - (c) The cabinet system has practically deposed Parliament of legislative initiative: ibid...
...Congressional system is a better representation of the popular will: Amer. Hist, Ass 'n Papers IV. III. - (a) It presents better safeguards against demagogism: ibid. 118, A. Lawrence Lowell's Essays on Gov. 31. - (b) It distributes the results of responsibility: Hinsdale's Amer. Gov. 279 - (c) It is at once more conservative and more democratic: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers IV. 118. - (d) It is better adapted to the United States: Lowell's Essays...
...caucus is a very old American institution; Gordon, Hist. of Am. Rev. vol. 1, p. 363. (a) It first appeared in New England because of the wide extension of suffrage, - (b) It has spread with the extension of the suffrage. - (c) Practically the only change has been the choice of delegates to conventions: Works of John Adams, Vol. 2, p. 144. - (d). This was a natural and necessary development: Am. Cit. Manual...
...Hist. 1 on Friday, containing the German Electorates. Ecclesiastical territory, and the possessions of the house of Hapsburg under Charles...