This remained until the institution of political society, when, for example, among the Athenians, the council of chiefs became the senate, and the assembly of the people the ecclesia or popular assembly.
But in all measures that exact promptitude and energy, treachery and timidity are apt to enfeeble the resolutions of a popular assembly.
We disclaim any intention of hinting that you “proposed a platform controversy, in order to catch the ear of a popular assembly, and to turn away attention from weak points by oratorical artifices.
Is not the revising wisdom of a senate a salutary check on the precipitation of a popular assembly?
Henry Sydney indeed looked pale and nervous; but his companion, flushed and resolute, knew exactly how to hit a popular assembly, and at once came to the point.
Why should a popular assembly, elected by the flower of a nation, be precipitate?
In saying, however, that the power had passed to the House of Commons, we must be careful not to regard the House of Commons as a popular assembly.
The new Prime Minister was a man whose unwieldy person and want of grace seemed little to fit him for the command of a popular assembly.
It would be better to risk a formal opposition of a certain number, and be sure of unanimity in his own administration, than to be at the caprice of a popular assembly.
Yet against so poor an orator, all the eloquence of the philosophical Girondists, all the terrible powers of his associate Danton, employed in a popular assembly, could not enable them to make an effectual resistance.
Congress answered by passing in 1787 the famous Northwest Ordinance providing for temporary territorial government to be followed by the creation of a popular assembly as soon as there were five thousand free males in any district.
In the autumn of 1791, Louis XVI was forced to accept a new constitution for France vesting the legislative power in a popular assembly.
Thus by one process or another every one of the colonies secured a popular assembly.
The place I would desire your lordships to note, as the first example that I find, or think is to be found, of a popular assembly by way of representative.
The Duma still exists, but its powers were closely restricted in 1907, and the franchise has been narrowed, to secure an overwhelming preponderance of the wealthy, so that it is altogether misleading to regard it as a popular assembly.
Great Britain is not partial to groups, it has always broadly been divided politically into two camps, but a few men of strong independent judgment are invaluable in a popular assembly.
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