Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senators should represent the states in such manner as their own constitutions distribute power, (Forum, Nov., '94, 277).- (1) The different districts should have equal voice.- (2) The expression of the popular will is thus made more deliberate.- (3) The corporate representation of states is especially needed now.- (1) The national government tends to overbalance the state governments...
...Senators should be elected by the state legislatures.- (A) Indirect election of Senators secures much better men.- (1) Mere popular demagogues cannot secure election by state legislatures.- cf. character of senators and governors.- (B) Corruption, urged as an objction to the present system, would be merely increased by popular election of senators.- (1) Bribing in direct election is as easy as in indirect elctions: (bryce II, 137 seq.).- (2) It is more demoralizing.- (3) The Senators would be elected by the corrupt element of the states.- (a) The cities, where most corruption exists, would have greater influence (Bryce...
There are three important sources of the fables of the Middle Ages, said Professor Marsh; the fables of classic times; the mass of Northern or Germanic stories which came early in the 12th century into Europe; and the various additions which were made to the original tales in popular use. The mingling of these three caused many diversities, so that the limit of each source cannot be certainly determined...
...Copeland spoke very briefly last evening on Keats' life and poetical work. He took up especially three points: first, the statement so often made, with Shelley for authority, that Keats was "a Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by some critics as to whether Keats would have advanced greatly in his art. Keats was in certain ways a Greek in spirit but undoubtedly a romantic in form. As to his weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions...
...Biennial elections would subject the state to more agitation for the repeal of laws: R. L. Bridgman, New England Magazine, VIII, p. 216.- (a) Laws would be passed with less consideration of the popular will...