Having failed to make an impression on the Senate by a frontal attack, the advocates of popular election set to work to capture that citadel by a rear assault.
In the Senate itself were found occasional champions of popular election, principally from the West and South.
Its standard qualification for accession to power is merit, ascertained by popular election, recurring at short intervals of time.
Its standard qualification for accession to power is merit, ascertained by popular election recurring at short intervals of time.
The practice of choosing the judges by popular electionwas an attempt to restore to the courts something of their old popular character; but it did not succeed, for very obvious reasons.
In the former the procedure is simple and conciliatory, the jurisdiction is confined to cases of little importance, and the judges were at first chosen by popular election, generally from among the local inhabitants.
Popular election in a judicial organisation is useful only when the courts are public and the procedure simple; on the contrary, it is positively prejudicial when the procedure is in writing and extremely complicated.
In recent years there has been more or less criticism of the practice of choosing administrative officials by popular election.
Nearly everywhere the office is filled by popular election, though in a few states treasurers are chosen by the county board or appointed by the governor.
Members of all these classes of boards are usually appointed by the governor, though occasionally a board is made up of members chosen by popular election.
When the highest dignity in the state is to be conferred by popular election once in every few years, the whole intervening time is spent in what is virtually a canvass.
All special offices, both those which gave a seat in the Senate and those which were sought by senators, were conferred by popular election.
A most important principle of good government in a popular constitution is that no executive functionaries should be appointed by popular election, neither by the votes of the people themselves, nor by those of their representatives.
His lordship demanded to know whether in the event of the resignation of ministers, there existed means of forming a better administration, or whether the tories could safely appeal to the test of a popular election?
As the lower classes were under the impression that bread was high, because of the corn-laws, and that they existed to enrich the landholders, an expressed opinion in favour of their abolition was sure to gain cheers at a popular election.
Previous to this Mr. Smith had brought in a bill to administer these trusts by a system of popular election.
The constituted electors of the President have become a mere name; and that officer is chosen by popular election, in opposition to the intention of those who framed the Constitution.
Such a practice, even with the members of a House which has been directly returned by popular election, is, I think, false to the intention of the system.
But in most of the States the power of appointing has been claimed by the people, and the judges are voted in by popular election, just as the President of the Union and the Governors of the different States are voted in.
All government in the United States rests substantially upon popular election.
Men selected by that method began to pour in upon the floors of Congress; finally in 1912 the two-thirds majority was secured for an amendment to the federal Constitution providing for the popular election of Senators.
Failing in the Senate, advocates ofpopular election made a rear assault through the states.
But, whether true or not, there was, apart from a natural desire to administer the first office in his State, obvious advantage to his political prestige in passing successfully through a popular election.
And no reentry, it was plain, could be so striking as a popular election to the second station in the land, nominal though it was, and in taking it to displace the very enemy who had been finally responsible for the wrong done him.
I wished,' was my reply, 'to establish a government based on popular election.
As the eldest of the nephews of Napoleon, I can then consider myself as the representative of popular election; I will not say of the Empire because in the lapse of twenty years the ideas and wants of France may have changed.
The scheme ofpopular election may be pursued with reasonable success if the bar use all the influence at their command to secure both good nominations originally and the re-election of all who have served well.
But a judge holding office by popular election must in any case owe something to somebody for supporting his candidacy.
The States which guard these most closely are those in which there is the most jealousy of anything like a standing order, and the widest scope of popular election.
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