Upon him has been devolved by the Constitution and the suffrages of the American people the duty of superintending the operation of the Executive Departments of the Government and seeing that the laws are faithfully executed.
All things relative to peace or war, to the election of magistrates, and even to the choosing a king, were confirmed by suffragesin their assemblies.
But as there are several candidates who solicit thesuffrages of the Public, they cannot be at a loss.
He was content that others should hold their Places according to the establishd Rules of the Constitution, so that he might continue Archon, independent of the Suffrages of the People.
The interest which Douglas exhibited in the Western Harbors bill was due, in part at least, to his desire to propitiate those by virtue of whosesuffrages he was a member of the House of Representatives.
Besides, the man who could command the suffrages of a million voters was not a force lightly to be reckoned with.
The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire.
Even the most popular among the leaders of the opposition were reduced to the necessity of surrendering their pretensions to a place in the electoral body, or of pledging themselves to bestow their suffrages on the actual president.
The essential features of such a government are the right of the people to choose their own officers and the nearest practicable equality of value in the suffrages given in determining that choice.
The People henceforward and for ever in possession of universal suffrages and who need no Prince for its restitution, will know how to chastise the rebel.
If I do not obtain the majority of your suffrages I shall call together a New Assembly and shall place in its hands the commission which I have received from you.
So Mr. O'Connell had again to seek the suffrages of the electors of Clare.
But this is false, for if it were true, then the suffrages of the Church for the dead would be superfluous.
And thirdly, that those who are greater may not therefore be proud, but may realize that they need the suffrages of their inferiors.
But the suffrages of the Church for the dead are, as it were, satisfactions offered by the living in place of the dead, and thus they free the dead from that debt of punishment which they have not paid.
Lastly, the prayers of the entire Court of Heaven should, if they can gain anything at all, be far more efficacious than all the suffrages of the Church on earth.
But if all the suffrages of the Church on earth were to be accumulated upon one soul in Purgatory, it would be entirely freed from punishment.
There is a nobler ambition than the getting of all California, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now.
Non ego ventosæ venor suffragia plebis=--I do 25 not hunt after the suffrages of the fickle multitude.
In proportion to the strength of our self-reliance is our indifference to the multiplication of suffrages in favour of our own judgment.
Experience has long decided this point in the affirmative as regards responsibility to the executive, and the case is quite equally strong when the responsibility sought to be enforced is to the suffrages of electors.
It can always be taken into the calculation, and counted at a certain figure, a higher figure being assigned to the suffrages of those whose opinion is entitled to greater weight.
AND this constitution of suffrages is framed upon a wiser principle than either of the methods of voting, by centuries, or by tribes, among the Romans.
In all democracies therefore it is of the utmost importance to regulate by whom, and in what manner, the suffrages are to be given.
When a President of the Republic had to be chosen by the suffrages of the people, Louis Napoleon unexpectedly received a great majority of the votes.
Lombardy had united with Piedmont soon after the victory at Solferino, by the suffrages of its inhabitants.
Among them was Miltiades, who had succeeded in ingratiating himself with the Athenian people, and obtained from their suffrages a command.
A brazen urn received the suffrages of condemnation--one of wood those of acquittal.
The tendency to lean to the side of mercy in all cases may be perceived from this--that if the suffrages of the judges were evenly divided, it was the custom in all the courts of Athens to acquit the accused.
Themistocles was summoned to the ordeal of the ostracism and condemned by the majority of suffrages (B.
Each leader wrote his own name a candidate for the first rank; but a great majority of suffrages awarded the second to Themistocles.
And property was employed to procure at the bar of justice the suffrages it could command at a political election.
There is little to distinguish a king from his subjects but the rabble's shout--if he loses that and is reduced to the forlorn hope of gaining the suffrages of the wise and good, he is of all men the most miserable.
It may be defined to be a prostitution of the mind or body to ape the more or less obvious defects of others, because by so doing we shall secure the suffrages of those we associate with.
If a Parliament, with suffrages and universal or any conceivable kind of suffrages, is the method, then certainly let us set about discovering the kind of suffrages, and rest no moment till we have got them.
It is a work which has received the suffrages of generations.
They are so, however, by evident merit rather than by age, and have not been in existence long enough to receive the suffrages of generations.
Saints, their suffrages discarded by Waldenses, i.
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