 Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation in which I stood to my Assembly in Jamaica. There is the same absence of effective responsibility in the conduct of legislation, the same want of concurrent action between the parts of the...  Lord Elgin - Page 255by John George Bourinot - 1905 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Bruce Earl of Elgin - 1872 - 498 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation...in the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business was conducted in the House of Commons... | |
 | James Bruce (8th earl of Elgin.) - 1872 - 510 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation...political machine. The whole business of legislation in 1«0— 1853. SELF-GOVERNMENT NOT REPUBLICAN. 121 the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures,... | |
 | Nicholas Flood Davin - 1877 - 724 pages
...Crown. Mr. Fillmore stood to his Congress as Lord Elgin stood to his Assembly in Jamaica. There was the same absence of effective responsibility in the...between the parts of the political machine. The whole businessof legislation in the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures, Lord Elgin contended,... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1907 - 504 pages
...nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation in wh'ch I stood to my Assembly in Jamaica. There is the same...in the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business was conducted in the House of Commons... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton, William Lawson Grant - 1907 - 570 pages
...nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation in wh'ch I stood to my Assembly in Jamaica. There is the same...in the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business was conducted in the House of Commons... | |
 | 1911 - 1292 pages
...of affaii chosen and presumably themselves intrust such peculiar knowledge or si THE AMERICAN SYSTEM eminent fitness. By this method the defects of democracy...in the American congress, as well as in the state legisla»" Commentaries," sec. 869. LORD ELGIN tures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business... | |
 | John George Lambton Earl of Durham - 1912 - 354 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Fillmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation...action between the parts of the political machine '. — Canadian Constitutional Development (Egerton and Grant), p. 327. Head, dated the 5th of December... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1918 - 774 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation...in the American Congress, as well as in the State Legislatures, is conducted in the manner in which railway business was conducted in the House of Commons... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1918 - 754 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Filmore ennedy responsibihty in the conduct of legislation, the same want of concurrent action between the parts of... | |
 | John Lyle Morison - 1928 - 342 pages
...cases, the principle of popular election substituted for that of nomination by the Crown. Mr. Fillmore stands to his Congress very much in the same relation in which I stood to my assembly in Jamaica, though with the utmost deference I venture to think I managed my refractory crew better than he does... | |
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