Representative Government and a Parliament of Industry: A Study of the German Federal Economic CouncilFabian Society, 1923 - 273 páginas |
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... necessary material , and to secure interviews with some of the men most con- nected with the creation and subsequent operation of the German Federal Economic Council . The second visit was made possible by the fact that the Henry ...
... necessary material , and to secure interviews with some of the men most con- nected with the creation and subsequent operation of the German Federal Economic Council . The second visit was made possible by the fact that the Henry ...
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... necessary . We here make no revolutionary proposals . We do not seek to sweep away the old governmental forms and replace them by an entirely new synthesis . Only the generation of Rousseau and one or two belated apostles of that ...
... necessary . We here make no revolutionary proposals . We do not seek to sweep away the old governmental forms and replace them by an entirely new synthesis . Only the generation of Rousseau and one or two belated apostles of that ...
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... necessary to the tasks of the present age . THE LEGACY AND ITS PRODIGAL USE It is remarkable with what an optimism the elder Mill , apostle of Jeremy Bentham , bequeathed to us the theoretical basis of Representative Government ...
... necessary to the tasks of the present age . THE LEGACY AND ITS PRODIGAL USE It is remarkable with what an optimism the elder Mill , apostle of Jeremy Bentham , bequeathed to us the theoretical basis of Representative Government ...
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... necessary processes of thought about the end and methods of government , and that cannot but • 1 Epoca , October 5 , 1920. Cf. Esmein , op . cit . , 7th ed . vol . ii . p . 353 n . 2 Cf. Wallas , The Great Society , chaps . xi . and xii ...
... necessary processes of thought about the end and methods of government , and that cannot but • 1 Epoca , October 5 , 1920. Cf. Esmein , op . cit . , 7th ed . vol . ii . p . 353 n . 2 Cf. Wallas , The Great Society , chaps . xi . and xii ...
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... necessary to the invention of new devices . It is their business to clothe Blue Books and letters with reality , but outside life cannot directly compel and invigorate them . For them , as for all others , the quickening juices of life ...
... necessary to the invention of new devices . It is their business to clothe Blue Books and letters with reality , but outside life cannot directly compel and invigorate them . For them , as for all others , the quickening juices of life ...
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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...