Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligence.) "Ours must be a government of laws, net of men." "The executive and legislative branches of the government should be kept separate"; or, as it is sometimes expressed, "Checks and balances are essential safeguards of popular liberty." "No taxation without representation." "Self-determination and municipal home rule." "Avoid entangling alliances." "State rights." "The office should seek the man, not the man the office." (The office does seek the man sometimes, but not often-about as often as a burglar goes seeking a policeman.) "The rule of public opinion." "Political parties are groups of voters who think alike and have...
Government must rest on the consent of the governed. This rule, of course, does not apply to aliens, Negroes, Filipinos or inhabitants of the District of Columbia. The consent of the governed is a synonym for the will of the majority, and the will of the majority is expressed by a plurality of those who take the trouble to vote. ...Taking our state and municipal elections, and averaging them for the country as a whole, the figures show that the will of the people is regularly expressed by less than twenty per cent of our adult citizenship, or about...
Pleasantly ensconced within the gentle blue confines of the October number of the Yale Review is an article by Professor Abbott of Harvard on the democracies and dictators. There he shows that it is possible for America to give up Congress and Coolidge for the muzzzling but methodical rule of some domestic dictator. Nor does one dare to disagree with Mr. Abbott on this point. There will come a time when politicians will be purloined of their progress and heads will fall before the aggressive decisions of a representative to that permanent future of governmental change the chopping block...
...vestige of the belief that U. S. colleges are educational institutions is the almost universal rule forbidding students to play on Varsity athletic teams before they have completed one year of academic work. Exceptions have been West Point and Annapolis. Many a "plebe" has won many a game for these institutions against opponents who denied themselves the assistance of freshmen. Last week, however, West Point announced that, beginning next year, it would forego this genuine advantage, in the interests of "improved athletic development and relations...
...Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year to any other social club or society which takes in less than 100 members from a college class. The Advisory Committee shall have power to determine what organizations come within the meaning of this rule...