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Shifting the responsibility for American constitutional development from the courts to the entire electorate by means of a new machinery for amending the Federal constitution was the method for securing independence of the courts from political influence and establishing more direct expression of public will, proposed by Mr. Herbert D. Croly '90, in the Godkin series of lectures last night. Mr. Croly claimed that the United States, with its national unity now well established, has outgrown its old system of government by law, and should be ruled by the popular will...
...greatest obstacle in the way of this system, Mr. Croly pointed out, is the existing method of making constitutional amendments, which is extremely inflexible and slow. Amendments should be made, not by Congress and the States, but by a majority of the entire electorate. Time should be allowed for public deliberation, and the territorial distribution of this majority should be especially considered...
...first outlined the origin of our plan of government. Since they had to have a supreme authority, the colonists substituted the sovereignty of the people for the British king. Up to this time, furthermore, there had always been mutual distrust between the ruler and the colonists, and the customary method of guaranteeing the rights of both parties was by drawing up a charter. The colonists liked the security of these contracts, and did not object to any accompanying subordination. Consequently, constitutions were drawn up for the new states, and thus popular law, but not popular government, was established. This plan...
...Harvard Mathematical Club. "A New Method of Solving Ordinary Differential Equations," by Mr. W. V. Lovitt, in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
...Classical Conference. "The Relation between the Satires and the Odes of Horace in Method of Composition," by Mr. R. K. Hack.--"Satyrus's Life of Euripides," by Professor C. H. Moore.--"An Old Latin Version of Huripides," by Professor Gulick, in Harvard...