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...s he began to pace. “ Apparently, it was formed as a result of the 28 th Constitutional Amendment that we so fe- verishly worked to get passed. They... ...d could have been harnessed and used for our purposes.” “The former Soviet Republics have virtually decimated them- selves through war with each other...

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...b Emirates UK United Kingdom US United States USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) YAR Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) Dates of i... ...by referendum No- vember 1976; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials, in- cluding ... ...n adopted 1920, repromulgated 1945; judicial review of legislative acts by a Constitutional Court; separate administrative and civil/penal supreme cou... ...niversal over age 18 Elections: House of Assembly (June 1982); next election constitutionally due in five years Political parties and leaders: Progres... ...ister; Amir dissolved the National Assembly in August 1975 and suspended the constitutional provision for election of the Assembly; independent judici... ...labor: 70% of labor force Government Official name: Kingdom of Belgium Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Brussels Administrative divisions: nine ... ...f skilled labor reported Government Official name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Type: Communist state Capital: Moscow Administrative divisions:... ... Administrative divisions: 15 union repub- lics, consisting of 20 autonomous republics, 6 krays, 123 oblasts, 8 autonomous oblasts, and 10 autonomous ... ...programs; main TV centers in Moscow and Leningrad plus 11 more in the Soviet republics; hundreds of TV stations; 85,000,000 TV sets; 162,000,000 recei...

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... existence of "illiberal democracy" - with all the trappings of one but without its constitutional substance and philosophical foundations. The Unit... ...Khan and now Pervez Musharraf has been introverted in its nationalism and based on constitutional and national ideas similar to those of present da... ...threatened to imprison tax evaders and debt defaulters and backed his threat with (constitutionally dubious) arrests. The immediate result was that... ...expense of the pro-American but far less influential Britain, Italy and Spain; the constitutional crisis setting European federalists against tradi... ...for the first time since 1989. This week, after 12 years of abortive contacts, the republics of the former Yugoslavia agreed with the Russian Feder... ... of military force than the Germans but sympathize with their approach to the EU's constitutional reform. In truth, there are no more fixed and rel... ... poverty line. Strains between well to do newcomers, mainly from the former Soviet republics, and impoverished veterans are growing - as do tension...

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... about whether the United States is a Christian nation. However with the Constitutional requirement of the separation of church and state it would ... ...ted values are seldom universally desired and, with the exception of some Constitutional values like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, are s... ...nsor and vote on an initiative then a politically appointed judge, seeing Constitutional guarantees from his own point of view, invalidates the will ... ...mestic partnerships to marriages. The plaintiffs sued under the California Constitutional provisions giving the rights to privacy, free speech and eq... ...on. The four judges ruled that ‗equal protection‘ trumped the traditional Constitutional definition of marriage. ―Or look at the electoral co... ...ns and New England town meetings. ―The big democracies are really republics. Most have democratically elected republics, although in the U.S... ...te out the politicians that oversee it. The question for these democratic-republics is whether the people are better off because of the universal edu...

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...nd parliament had to be dissolved. Alexander went further, taking advantage of the constitutional crisis. He abolished the constitution of 1921, ou... ...nothing new to Kosovo - the demonstrations of 1968 were arguably worse (and led to constitutional changes granting autonomy to Kosovo in 1974). But... ... Albanians themselves initiated such anti-Serb measures following their new gained constitutional autonomy in 1974. Now the tide has turned and tho... ...nverted version of apartheid. It faced the ubiquitous problem of all the other republics of former Yugoslavia - not one of them was ethnically ...

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... - in federal systems - state, governments. Local governments rarely have separate constitutional authority, although there are varying degrees of ... ...ey each have much bigger populations than many countries, such as New Zealand, the republics of former Yugoslavia, and the Baltic states. On the o...

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...l evils, all treacheries, all opin- ions, have made him as inviolable as a constitutional king. Venial sins, which excite a hue and cry against a man ... ...pure republi- cans, presiding republicans, republicans without a republic, constitutionals without a dynasty, ministerial conservatives, ministerial a... ...an not to apostatize too suddenly. “Napoleon said it; you can’t make young republics of old monarchies. Therefore, my dear fellow, become the hero, th...

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...ces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner. The fa- mous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more h... ...ces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner. The fa- mous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more h... ...studying the laws which were promulgated at this first era of the American republics, it is impossible not to be struck by the remarkable acquaintance... ...r their laws and customs may be: if man makes monarchies and estab- lishes republics, the first association of mankind seems con- stituted by the hand... ...State; and to this end all the privileges of the *[As it existed under the constitutional monarchy down to 1848.] 126 Democracy in America courts of ... ...ajority represented in the other House, which is contrary to the spirit of constitutional gov- ernment. These facts show how rare and how difficult it... ...s between the Position of the President of the United States and That of a Constitutional King of France Executive power in the Northern States as lim... ...nited States, it may not be irrelevant to compare it to that of one of the constitutional kings of Europe. In this comparison I shall pay but little a... ...See Kent’s “Commentaries, vol. i. p. 289. **This comparison applied to the Constitutional King of France and to the powers he held under the Charter o...

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... blessings, for the present age and for posterity. I thereupon summoned my constitutional advisers, the heads of all the departments, to meet on Sunda... ... of our case, can you do better in any possible event? You prefer that the constitutional relation of the States to the nation shall be practically re... ...tious that this, in part, is done under cover of an act of Congress, while constitutional guaranties are suspended on the plea of military necessity. ... ...on as you desire? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds; for, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, in... ...ave an important principle to rally and unite the people, in the fact that constitutional government is at stake. This is a fundamental idea going dow... ...imilar measures, while, on the other hand, several of the Spanish American republics have protested against the sending of such colonies to their resp...

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...wo first, by being hereditary, are independent of the people; wherefore in a CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE they contribute nothing towards the freedom “Common ... ...he crown is not as oppressive in England as in Tur key. An inquiry into the CONSTITUTIONAL ERRORS in the English form of government is at this time ... ...s there can be no su periority, perfect equality affords no temptation. The republics of Europe are all (and we may say always) in peace. Holland and... ...gation, trampled nature and conscience beneath his feet; and by a steady and constitutional spirit of insolence and cruelty, pro cured for himself an...

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...to discover that, though you represent its divine beauty, you have not the constitutional spirit.” “Are you not bound,” said the Duchess, pointing to ... ...overnment over a vast expanse of country it is frittered down. The Italian republics were the glory of Europe in the middle ages. Why has Italy succum... ...uccumbed when the Swiss, who were her porters, have triumphed?” “The Swiss republics,” said the doctor, “were worthy house- wives, busy with their own... ... little concerns, and neither hav- ing any cause for envying another. Your republics were haughty queens, preferring to sell themselves rather than bo...

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...t of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional pro- vision which declares that “the United States shall gua... ...whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to a... ...eaties have been negotiated, which will in due time be sub- mitted for the constitutional action of the Senate. They contain 38 The Writings of Abra... ...guaranteed by the United States, and that under it the State shall, on the constitutional conditions, be protected against invasion and domestic vio- ... ...al conditions, be protected against invasion and domestic vio- lence. The constitutional obligation of the United States to guarantee to every State ... ...ing the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sym- pathies with the United States...

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...ffence to those who hold slaves by legal sanction; but they will use every constitutional method to prevent the evil from becoming larger and involvin... ...; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it. I believe our Governme... ...alf of yourself and other German citizens, whether I am for or against the constitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted ... ... it desires to prohibit the spread of slavery into the Territories, has no constitutional power to do so. Not only so, but that decision lays down pri... ...iffers a whit from the other. He will tell me, doubtless, that there is no constitutional provision against people taking slaves into the new Territor... ...nd to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a govern- ment, of necessi...

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...es a trick by which they could defeat what the proslavery men considered a constitutional right, and that he called that trick lawful, this the slave ... ...ed by the opposition as a tyrant and a usurper, for having gone beyond his constitutional powers in authorizing or permitting the temporary suppressio... ...d, even under the most trying circumstances, to remain strictly within the constitutional limitations of his authority; and whenever the boundary beca... ...its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness?” This question he answered in the name of... ...gave a new impetus to the importation of slaves, so that in 1808, when the constitutional prohibition took effect, their numbers had vastly increased.... ...formation of the Republican party for the avowed purpose of preventing, by constitutional methods, the fur- ther extension of slavery. In its first ca... ...fruit of other men’s toil and to exclude them from equal rights, were real republics, fee- bler to be sure than their Northern rivals, but representin...

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...be done and the man who orders it), it was permanently organized under the constitutional government, which was, inevitably, the friend of all mediocr... ...f holding, as formerly, grand councils of state with the nobles. Under the constitutional government, the ministers of the various de- partments were ... ...l, or its Colbert to direct even vast administrative departments. Besides, constitutionally speak- ing, three ministries will agree better than seven;... ...tion of July has suppressed his office, emi- nently useful as it was, to a constitutional ministry. Moralists usually employ their weapons against obs... ...a monar- chy you will find none but courtiers and vassals, whereas under a constitutional government you may be flattered, served, and adulated by fre... ... who were taken young have been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose affairs they have directed. The 108 Bureaucracy world stil... ...(where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that for this pr...

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...; and these committees have relations with the ministers. But they have no constitutional power over the ministers; nor have they the much more valuab... ...th the full consent of the legislatures of thirty- three States, could not constitutionally put down slavery in the remaining thirty-fourth State. In ... ...ion of States will stand something higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have vanished, and h... ...ains it, and not to the national government by which the question has been constitutionally ignored. The men who have participated in the government h... ...n citizens of the United States. They see to what Mexico has come, and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of even that degradation is ... ...bits servants of the State from going into Parliament is, like many of our constitutional rules, hard to be defined, and yet perfectly understood. It ... ...nk I am justified in saying; but its power of doing this is so hampered by constitutional enactment, that it would seem that the Constitution as regar...

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...what they fleeced from these poor drudges; but obliged, as the Co- lombian Republics are at this day, to make of every alteration a revolution; no way... ...eep,” said Morton, “than that bearded men be forced to weep.” Knox was the constitutional opposition-party in Scotland: the Nobles of the country, cal... ...? They are become dreadfully dull men! One breaks down often enough in the constitutional eloquence of the admirable Pym, with his “seventhly and last... ...ld not touch the work but with gloves on! Neither, on the whole, does this constitutional tolerance of 177 On Heroes the Eighteenth century for the o... ...d have demanded! It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!—Liberty to tax ones... ...here: who or what then is to follow? “Free Parliament,” right of Election, Constitutional Formulas of one sort or the other,—the thing is a hungry Fac...

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...g to maturity that were not likely to be met by commensu- rate sales. Yet, constitutionally, he was a sanguine hoper. At this time he was a stout, fre... ... and Calvin as he did ridicule them, Swift could not be thought other than constitutionally incapable of religion. Even a Pagan philosopher, if made t... ...copal throne? This argues, beyond a doubt, that Swift was in that state of constitutional irreligion, irreligion from a vulgar temperament, which im- ... ... overhanging gloom. It is the great infirmity of the French, and connected constitutionally with the gayety of their tem- perament, that they cannot s... ... to have been born since that era, will perhaps not be acquainted with the constitutional question then at issue. It was this: Mr. Fox held that, upon... ...ntend for the prize of human excellence? The polypus nature of the Grecian republics, in which every individual enjoyed a separate life, and if it wer...

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... were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery,... ...s to be a conference without a name. Nine monarchs, the presidents of four republics, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers and ambassadors, po... ...nd the still more infinitesimal pretensions of one or two ax-presidents of republics, no member of the council had even the shade of a right to his pa... ... an atmosphere of contention that is perhaps the most perplexing aspect of constitutional history in the nine- teenth century. In that age they seem t...

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...evour us if he rise, an innocent Giant? Curate Gregoire, who indeed is now Constitutional Bishop Gregoire, asserts, in the heat of eloquence, that Kin... ...niteur, 1793, No. 140, &c.) Will you, O Girondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Ameri- 113 Thomas Carlyle cans;... ...nal business, 136 The French Revolution - V olume Three discussion of the Constitutional Act, for our Constitution should decidedly be got ready, pro... ...he same manner as an ordinary criminal; bound, on a Cart; accompanied by a Constitutional Priest in Lay dress; escorted by numerous detachments of inf... ...when Tinville intimated his death-sentence to him; and died as an eloquent Constitutional Bishop. But wo now to all Bishops, Priests, Aristocrats and ... ...e to Committee of Finances?’ Hardly is this got decided, when goose Gobel, Constitutional Bishop of Paris, with his Chapter, with Municipal and Depart...