Representative Government and a Parliament of Industry: A Study of the German Federal Economic CouncilFabian Society, 1923 - 273 páginas |
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... citizens . The will , the needs , the interests of the citizen so far as they came under the purview and power of the central political authority , were deemed to be clearly expressed and sufficiently represented by persons chosen at ...
... citizens . The will , the needs , the interests of the citizen so far as they came under the purview and power of the central political authority , were deemed to be clearly expressed and sufficiently represented by persons chosen at ...
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... citizens increasingly distrusted the theory of representa- tion through elections in territorial constituencies and deliberation in Parliament as being in any sense adequate as the servant of their interests in government . relation to ...
... citizens increasingly distrusted the theory of representa- tion through elections in territorial constituencies and deliberation in Parliament as being in any sense adequate as the servant of their interests in government . relation to ...
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... citizens , freely grouped on the basis of interest , upon the Government . Within the House of Commons are groups of members specially formed to further their common purpose , not as citizens , but as representatives of a distinctive ...
... citizens , freely grouped on the basis of interest , upon the Government . Within the House of Commons are groups of members specially formed to further their common purpose , not as citizens , but as representatives of a distinctive ...
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... citizens grouped in occupations . For local government purposes in authorities governing new regions , " similar projects are afoot . It is hoped in this way to secure a legislative assembly more actually containing knowledge and ...
... citizens grouped in occupations . For local government purposes in authorities governing new regions , " similar projects are afoot . It is hoped in this way to secure a legislative assembly more actually containing knowledge and ...
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... citizens ' interests and undertakes to promote them in Parliament . But , it may be objected , perhaps many citizens themselves do not know their interests . For what does that knowledge of interests imply ? 2 Surely this , that each ...
... citizens ' interests and undertakes to promote them in Parliament . But , it may be objected , perhaps many citizens themselves do not know their interests . For what does that knowledge of interests imply ? 2 Surely this , that each ...
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according activity administration advisory agriculture appointed Article 165 Association of German authority basis Berlin branches of industry Cabinet Central Industrial Alliance Chambers of Labour citizens Clause co-operation Commerce Committee consumers Council system debate Decree demand democracy discussion District Economic Councils District Workers Division Division III Drucksache duties Economic Affairs elected electoral employers and employed established experts Federal Economic Council Federal Industrial Alliances full Assembly German Democratic Party Government Guild Socialism Heilfron House of Commons Ibid important institutions interests legislation liberal professions matters ment Minister Ministry for Economic mittee National Assembly needs nominated occupational official organisations Parliamentary parties political Parliament procedure provisional questions regulation Reichsrat Reichstag relation Report repre representation representative democracy resolution Rudolf Wissell Session side SIDNEY WEBB social society socio-political sumers territorial theory tion Trade Unions various Verhandlungen vocational groups voting whole
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Página 20 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 3 - ... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading;...
Página 20 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Página 24 - We may, in fact, not unfairly say that Trade Unionism has, in 1920, won its recognition by Parliament and the Government, by law and by custom, as a separate element in the community, entitled to distinct recognition as part of the social machinery of the State...
Página 3 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Página 5 - ... individuals, the conclusion is obvious: The Community itself must check those individuals, else they will follow their interest, and produce bad Government. But how is it the Community can check? The community can act only when assembled: And then it is incapable of acting.
Página 99 - The District Economic Councils and the Economic Council of the Reich shall be so constituted as to give representation thereon to all important vocational groups in proportion to their economic and social importance. All Bills of fundamental importance dealing with matters of social and economic legislation shall, before being introduced, be submitted by the Government of the Reich to the Economic Council of the Reich for its opinion thereon.
Página 9 - In the United States," says an experienced American publicist, whose opinion I have inquired, "though lobbying is perfectly legitimate in theory, yet the secrecy and want of personal responsibility, the confusion and want of system in the committees, make it rapidly degenerate into a process of intrigue, and fall into the hands of the worst men. It...
Página 98 - Council of the Reich. The District Workers' Council and the Workers' Council of the Reich shall combine with representatives of the...