The Referendum in America: Together with Some Chapters on the Initiative and the RecallC. Scribner, 1911 - 533 páginas |
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The Referendum in America: Together with Some Chapters on the Initiative and ... Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Visualização integral - 1912 |
The Referendum in America: Together with Some Chapters on the Initiative and ... Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Visualização integral - 1911 |
The Referendum in America: Together with Some Chapters on the Initiative and ... Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Visualização integral - 1911 |
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Página 38 - ... the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature, voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become part of the Constitution.
Página 97 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Página 325 - That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no Inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested in person, or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship: Provided, That polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Página 7 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 99 - Where the sovereign power of the state has located the authority, there It must remain, and by the constitutional agency alone the laws must be made until the Constitution itself Is changed. The power to whose Judgment, wisdom, and patriotism this high prerogative has been Intrusted cannot relieve Itself of the responsibility by choosing other agencies upon which the power Shall be devolved, nor can It substitute the Judgment, wisdom, and patriotism of any other body for those to which alone the...
Página 84 - Indian descent, not members of any tribe; provided, that the legislature may at any time extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumeraled ; but no such law shall be in force until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people at a general election, and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election...
Página 281 - Under such general laws, the electors of each city and village shall have power and authority to frame, adopt and amend its charter...
Página 38 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in either house of the general assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election...
Página 30 - No convention of the people shall be called by the General Assembly to revise, amend or change this Constitution, unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly. The representation in said convention shall be based on population as near as practicable.
Página 99 - One of the settled maxims in constitutional law is that the power conferred upon the legislature to make laws cannot be delegated by that department to any other body or authority. Where the sovereign power of the state has located the authority, there it must remain; and by the constitutional agency alone the laws must be made until the Constitution itself is changed.