A high sense of duty and an ambition to improve the service should characterize all public officers.
I drove my tandem down here yesterday to see you, and I was so excessively exhausted, that I was obliged to be carried out of the carriage into the inn where I arrived.
At a subsequent period the Duke d'Angouleme also fell into the hands of one of his Generals, but the moment Napoleon heard of it, he ordered him to be set at liberty to go where he pleased.
This court meets twice a year in the county town; in Massachusetts it is empowered to enforce the obedience of the greater number *s of public officers.
The power of punishing the misconduct of public officers, or of performing the part of the executive in urgent cases, has not, however, been bestowed on the same judges in all the States.
That certificates were issued to public officers to a great amount, and were paid by them to persons from whom they purchased.
A certain degree of economy is so; but parsimony, applied to the salaries of public officers, and the Representatives in particular, may be ruinous to the interests of a Republic.
The rapacity of public officers, and the corrupt character of ministers of justice, weighed heavily upon the property and spirits of the people.
Already the extortions of public officers in the exactions of fees for legal services had greatly irritated the people, and they regarded the requirements of the Stamp Act as a more gigantic scheme for legal plunder.
The rapacity of public officers appeared to increase, and the people saw no prospect of relief.
The mode of thinking which countenances this law, and the doctrines on which it is built, are derived from a country whose government is so different from ours, that the situation of public officers ought to be very different.
They would not in such a case be ordinary directors chosen by the stockholders in proportion to their stock, but they would be public officers, appointed to guard the public interest, and their duties must conform to their office.
Money is power, and in that Government which pays all the public officers of the States will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Another boon proposed by him to our colonies and trade was, the abolition of the large fees which were levied for the benefit of public officers in almost all our colonial ports.
Public officers, representatives of the people, have only the power which the people give to them.
Public officers, servants of the people, are provided for, and usually their selection is by vote of the people at general elections for which provision is made.
In whom authority rests: in the parent, in the teacher, and in public officers selected by the people to enforce the authority of the community, the State, and of the Nation.
Ought not the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of public moneys to be managed by public officers?
They declared that "indiscriminate removal of public officers for a mere difference of political opinion is a gross abuse of power, corrupting the morals and dangerous to the liberties of the people of this country.
Footnote 44: Transmitting statements of cases in which a per centum has been allowed to public officers on disbursements of public moneys.
In other countries the prosecution of offenders is the affair of the state, and is conducted in all the courts great and small by public officers.
The prosecution of crime is in the hands of public officers, procurators fiscal, under the control of the lord advocate.
The principle has been also extended to misdemeanours (but not to felonies) committed by public officers out of Great Britain, whether within or without the British dominions.
Election of public Officers, and Inalienability of their Functions.
The power of punishing the misconduct of public officers, or of performing the part of the executive, in urgent cases, has not, however, been bestowed on the same judges in all the states.
This court meets twice a year in the county town; in Massachusetts it is empowered to enforce the obedience of the greater number[83] of public officers.
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