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..., 3% government Government Official name: State of Bahrain Type: traditional monarchy; independent since 1971 Capital: Manama Legal system: based on I... ...abor force Government Official name: Kingdom of Belgium Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Brussels Administrative divisions: nine provinces; as o... ...sive lack of skilled labor Government Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan Type: monarchy; special treaty relation- ship with India Capital: Thimphu; Paro... ...abor force Government Official name: Kingdom of Denmark Type: constitutional monarchy Capita!: Copenhagen Administrative divisions: 14 counties, 275 c... ...ial name: Socialist Ethiopia Type: under military rule since September 1974; monarchy abolished in March 1975, republic to be formed in 1987 Capital: ... ...appointed by the Prime Minister, chosen by the lower house of the bicameral, elective legislature Diet (House of Coun- cilors, House of Representative... ...a new constitu- tion was endorsed by referendum in 1979 that provided for an elective presidential system and a 67-member National Assem- bly Covernme...
...itution that guaranteed individual liberties while continuing an absolute monarchy. That is sort of like giving the people a gigantic chocolate cake... ...‘t ask the king because he is immune to inquiries. So it is with absolute monarchy!‖ 22 --―I understand why so many are unconcerned with S... ...rning Simplish our university students can take traditional English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic ...
...1 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT —―Who should lead the government? What about monarchy?‖ —―Old fashioned iron-willed kings were never that popular w... ...umber of existing and proposed societies. We can assume that some kind of monarchy is best, or possibly one of the republican forms of government, o... ...ic countries are put on hold. In Norway a person on a waiting list for an elective operation for two years can opt to have it eventually done in Denm...
...d passion of the mind is able to deprive us of the pleasure of the worlds Monarchy. The first fit of an ague, or the first gird that the gout gave h... ...uted him as a friend unto the Roman people. 'To have renounced so great a Monarchy and forgon the course of so successfull prosperity by the only im... ...s the King to be of worse condition then a Carter; and he that extolleth, Monarchy placeth him both in power and soveraignty many steps above the God... ... which nothing is enjoyed. How small accompt should I make of these great elective dignities I see in the world, and which are onely given to men re...
...ies in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of feudal monarchy; the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on... ...of the sovereignty of the people had been introduced into the bosom of the monarchy of the House of T udor. The religious quarrels which have agitated... ...ican. The colonies still recognized the supremacy of the mother-coun- try; monarchy was still the law of the State; but the republic was already estab... ... tinent of Europe, at the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury, absolute monarchy had everywhere triumphed over the ruins of the oligarchical and fe... ...ven to it by that Revo- lution – Gradual and irresistible extension of the elective qualification. The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in A... ...ratic forms into the conduct of its government. When a nation modifies the elective qualification, it may easily be foreseen that sooner or later that... ...ws of Massachusetts, vol. ii. p. 494. ***The council of the Governor is an elective body.] A two- fold tendency may be discerned in the American const... ...dicial power into the administration – Consequence of the extension of the elective principle to all functionaries – The Justice of the Peace in New E... ...iety. But an elected magistrate can neither be cashiered nor promoted. All elective functions are inalienable until their term is ex- pired. In fact, ...
...ons of the day. I write under the light of two eternal truths—Religion and Monarchy; two necessities, as they are shown to be by contemporary events, ... ...as and interests would occupy the attention of a monarchical gov- ernment. Elective power extended to all gives us government by the masses, the only ... ...er been the equal of the Corps Legislatif, comparing them man for man. The elective sys- tem of the Empire was, then, indisputably the best. Some pers...
... beautiful flowers of womanhood which graced the golden ages of the French Monarchy. The great lady’s fan is broken. A woman has nothing now to blush ... ...Count Adam Laginski. “She is a modern product, a deplorable triumph of the elective system as applied to the fair sex,” said the Minister. “Every revo...
...a servant in a torrent of rain; borrowed on his lands to follow the routed monarchy , without knowing whether this complicity in emi- gration would pr... ...quired by the advance of the nineteenth century, and the new aspect of the Monarchy. Louis XVIII. aimed at fusing parties as Napoleon had fused things... ... had conquered a sufficiently large share in practical govern- ment by its elective assembly, its appointments to law-of- fices, and those of the exch...
...e the new equal-justice, of Departmental Courts, National Appeal-Court, of elective Justices, Justices of Peace, and other Thouret-and-Duport apparatu... ... shall be adjusted, and Paris have its Constitution. A Constitution wholly Elective; as indeed all French Government shall and must be. And yet, one f... ...ing. To whom, by Higher Order, they will this day present it; and save the Monarchy and World. Unaccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men,... ...s and Possibility of Man and his Universe, Louis Sixteenth and Two-Chamber Monarchy were precisely the one that would shape itself! It is like underta... ... kissed loyally the queenly hand, and said with en- thusiasm: “Madame, the Monarchy is saved!”—Possible? The Foreign Powers, mysteriously sounded, gav... ... world he is quitting. “I carry in my heart the death- dirge of the French Monarchy; the dead remains of it will now be the spoil of the factious.” Or... ...help. BOOK 2.IV. VARENNES Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. The French Monarchy may now therefore be considered as, in all human probability, lost... ... Old Municipals, on sight of the Full-powers, and mandate of the Sovereign elective People, lay down their functions; and this New Hundred and forty-f...
...Scriptures; and it is upon their war- rant that men have supposed no fifth monarchy or uni- versal empire possible in an earthly sense; but that, when... ...ity of the power in the same proportion as it promoted its extension. This monarchy would be absolute only by the personal presence of the monarch; el... ...Alexander found himself in the same position as Cyrus for building a third monarchy, and aided by the selfsame vices of luxurious effeminacy in his en... ...r in that proportion greater which laid the foundations of this last great monarchy. It is probable, in- deed, both à priori, and upon the evidence of... ...the end of time. T o trace the fortunes and revolutions of that unrivalled monarchy over which the Roman eagle brooded, to follow the dilapidations of... ...hrow- ing finally the power of either senate or army to interfere with the elective privilege. This he endeavored to centre in the existing emperors; ...
...ut to have a convention, which among other things will probably define the elective franchise. I barely sug- gest for your private consideration, whe... ...e control of the people in government is the source of all political evil. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power ... ...f twelve thousand, as it does. It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer ... ...s equally to black and white, and empowering the Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the colored man. This Leg- islature has already vo... ...ilance, and energy, and daring to the same end. Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already adva...
... rich with their hidden savings, proud of their discreet attachment to the monarchy, and who, after 1830, recovered their estates. Monsieur d’Hauteser... ...countries. Laurence scouted the odious compromise and stood firmly for the monarchy, militant and implacable. The four old people, anxious that their ... ...assing his regiments to strike the great blow at the heart of the Prussian monarchy. His desire for prompt jus- tice in the present case found powerfu... ...nt of the Empire and senator, peer of the Restoration, and now peer of the monarchy of July, made a servile bow to the princess. “Fear nothing, madame... ...ern- 190 An Historical Mystery ment of the few, a Senate for life, and an elective chamber the control of which shall be in our hands; for we ought t...
...ne, Catherine, forced to combat heresy which was seeking to annihilate the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Cath... ...man when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has died!” Catherine had, in the highest degree, the s... ...r its existence difficult, not to say impossible. Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion. There is no policy, no statesmanship poss... ...d, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw with great satisfaction, Cath... ...g constitution of the provinces. There lay the remedy for the evils of the monarchy; thence should have come the voting on taxes, the regulation of th... ... them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence to the Conn...
...e for rags — that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let mon archy keep it. I was from C... ..., goblins, pathetic frights, every one; legitimatest pos sible children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church. I muttered absen... ...tocracy, no doubt. Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote... ...ourse poor material for a republic, because they had been debased so long by monarchy; and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make sh... ...proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best condition attainable by its people; an... ...d orders, but with a hereditary royal family at the head of it instead of an elective chief magistrate. He believed that no nation that had ever known...
... of a great family, he must always be a man of mark; but yet his office is elective and (in a weak sense) is held on good behaviour. Compare the case ... ..., and elected their own two princes, Tamasese and Mataafa, to an alternate monarchy, T amasese taking the first trick of two years. War was imminent, ... ...ted but one cure of the evils of the time: that the farce of the T amasese monarchy should cease. It was one which the Ger- man refused to consider. A...
...ul, most op- pressive of all powers,—the power called parliamentary, which elective assemblies exercise. The salon du Ronceret, secretly allied to the... ... at the same time as that of Suzanne’s mother. The chevalier died with the monarchy, in August, 1830. He had joined the cortege of Charles X. at Nonan...
...nce over the masses, which it might then draw to closer relations with the monarchy. Whether it was that the Abbe Dutheil recognized the impossibility... ...ocial state as solid, with its young laws still untried, as it was under a monarchy , in spite of the old abuses? In losing the solidarity of families... ... those of his superiors, saw clearly into the destinies of both church and monarchy. When the two afflicted women came the young abbe, very impatient ... ...its venomous ac- tion and confine it to its real usefulness; to recall the elective Chamber to its true functions; and to restore to religion its powe...
... the hands of the two families which then enjoyed it, and making it wholly elective; and it is thought that he would on account of this quarrel have e... ...ated the necessity there was that the commonwealth should be turned into a monarchy, because of their ill government in the state; and could have aske... ..., indeed, the fatal time be come, which is to give a period to the Persian monarchy, if our ruin be a debt that must be paid to the divine jealousy an... ... of such wild and stormy disorder and madness might end no worse than in a monarchy. Some were so bold as to declare openly, that the government was i... ...enate to make him sole consul, that with the offer of a more legal sort of monarchy he might be withheld from demanding the dictatorship. They over an... ...ey of Caesar’s endless expeditions, and so suspicious of his designs for a monarchy. Upon this Pompey grew presumptuous, and neglected all warlike pre...
...makes the king to be in a worse condition than a carter; he who writes for monarchy places him some degrees above God in power and sovereignty. Now, t... ...d in a few—[an oligarchy.]—in a republic, or another sort of government in monarchy than that already established, is both vice and folly: “Aym... ...d; it endured it, notwithstanding, and therein continued, preserving not a monarchy limited within its own bounds, but so many na- 200 Essays: Book I... ...an the good. So long as the image of the ancient and received laws of this monarchy shall shine in any corner of the kingdom, there will I be. If they... ...ing can be possessed. Oh, what little account should I make of those great elective dignities that I see in such esteem in the world, that are never c...
...His cousin the deputy, Comte de Portenduere, cut a very poor figure in the Elective Chamber in presence of the peerage and the court; and had none too... ...eaven when he saw his son degraded by imprisonment for debt. Under the old monarchy that stain could have been spared you by obtaining a lettre de cac...
... good advice, to those of greater power he promised a commonwealth without monarchy , a democracy, or people’s government in which he should only be c... ...urypontids); the reason of which was that Eurypon relaxed the rigor of the monarchy, seeking favor and popularity with the many. They, after this firs... ... had no firm basis to stand upon, but leaned one while towards an absolute monarchy, when the kings had the upper hand, and another while towards a pu... ...he other hand, supporting the people against the establishment of absolute monarchy. As for the determinate number of twenty-eight, Aristotle states, ... ...upon your side. But chiefly his familiar friends chid him for disaffecting monarchy only because of the name, as if the virtue of the ruler could not ... ...o do what is right: it is obvious that they must actuate the practical and elective element of our nature, by certain initial occasions, by images pre...
...e more saints than shrines among us. “This is how it has come to pass. The monarchy fell, and we lost Honor, Christian Virtue faded with the religion ... ...tion either rises up in revolt, or lays itself down to die. Again, if this elective body, changing from time to time ac- cording to the needs and idea...
...onstitutional morals; he! he! he! That is how I understand the alliance of monarchy with liberty; ha! ha! ha!” Whereupon the mayor took Simon’s hand, ... ...oint, and for violence and bullying. Provisionally, he is satisfied with a monarchy hedged in by republican institutions; but he insists that our civi... ...ers like me, should assume the importance and au- thority of that insolent elective Chamber. But that is not all. Hereditary statesmen have a foolish ...
...owards any country whatso- ever, in either hemisphere,—empire or republic, monarchy, polyarchy, or anarchy,—that he might have reasons for as- saultin... ...t proportions. The effect of the music is, to place the mind in a state of elective attraction for every thing in harmony with its own prevailing key....
...t to be the exact colour of Munz. He has the greenish-yellow eyes of those elective, thrice-abhorred vampyres who feed on pa- triot-blood. He is conde... ...efinger. ‘Rogue! you deserve an imperial crown. You have been educated for monarchy. You are ready enough to dispense with what you don’t care for, an...
...other should have any share in it. And it would have but ill supported the monarchy they contend for, when by the very name it appeared that that fund... ...al successions or otherwise, so they laid the foundations of hereditary or elective king doms under several constitutions and manors, accord ing as ... ...om it both in its constitution, power, and end; or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, abso 47 Concer... ...narch in it, abso 47 Concerning Civil Government, 2nd Essay – Locke lute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain b... ... still in the state of Nature. 90. And hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted for the only government in the world... ...lence all those that dare question it. For what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of *“To take away all such mutual grievances, injuri... ...r chies, near their original, have been commonly, at least upon occasion, elective. 107. First, then, in the beginning of things, the father’s gove... ... his death the power only of nominating a successor, to return to them, an elective monarchy. And so accordingly of these make com pounded and mixed ...
...s. Some nations could not, except by foreign conquest, be made to endure a monarchy; others are equally averse to a republic. The hindrance often amou... ... the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent could not subsist, but unavoidably... ..., would generally be best also in an absolute monar chy, only an absolute monarchy is not so likely to practice it. The laws of property, for example... ...atively insignificant Oriental people—the Jews. They, too, had an absolute monarchy and a hierarchy, and their organized in stitutions were as obviou... ...ss jealous of the importance of their individual voices, than those of the elective House. And when a bill of many clauses does succeed in getting its... ...ists, as in the case of the more important function, for making the bodies elective; and the same reasons operate as in that case, but with still grea... ...t principle is, that in each local circumscription there should be but one elective body for all local business, not different bodies for different pa... ...ch apply to the execution do not apply to the control. The business of the elective body is not to do the work, but to see that it is prop erly done,... ...e than sufficient. In these large districts, therefore, the maxim, that an elective body consti tuted in any locality should have authority over all ...
...e nature of freemen, the other to that of slaves. Domestic government is a monarchy, for that is what pre- vails in every house; but a political state... ...that of Lacedsemon; for they say, that this is composed of an oligarchy, a monarchy, and a democ- racy, their kings representing the monarchical part,... ...many parts. But now in this government of Plato’s there are no traces of a monarchy, only of an oligarchy and democracy; though he seems to choose tha... ...nce it is evident, that such a state will not consist of a democracy and a monarchy, and this will be further proved by what we shall say when we come... ...gly power is in a general for life; and is sometimes hereditary, sometimes elective: besides, there is also another, which is to be met with among som... ... in ancient Greece they called _aesumnetes_; which is nothing more than an elective tyr- anny; and its difference from that which is to be found among... ...e, despotic, on account of their being tyrannies; but inasmuch as they are elective, and over a free people, they are also kingly. A fourth species of... ...gulated by laws: the third is that which they call aesumnetic, which is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian; and this, in few words, ... ...re, 150 Monarch, absolute, 100 Monarchies, their nature, 95, 96; sometimes elective, 95; sometimes hereditary, 95; whence they sometimes arise, 146; c...
...here ever was a sovereign who bid fair to realize the project of universal monarchy, it was the Emperor Charles V ., of whose intrigues Wolsey was at ... ...ing which their constitutions would acquire a progressive direction toward monarchy. It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expen... ...driven to the alternative ei- ther of taking refuge at once in the arms of monarchy, or of splitting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, cl... ...ding the sphere of popular government, and reconciling the ad- vantages of monarchy with those of republicanism. “It is very probable,” (says he*) “th... ...vernment of Rome was laid by Romulus, and the work completed by two of his elective suc- cessors, Numa and T ullius Hostilius. On the abolition of roy... ... model of State constitutions The House of Representatives is periodically elective, as in all the States; and for the period of two years, as in the ... ... the period of two years, as in the State of South Carolina. The Senate is elective, for the period of six years; which is but one year more than the ... ... whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the... ... a casting vote in case of a tie. The executive head is himself eventually elective every year by the legislative department, and his council is every...
... had the Hun- garians submitted to the House of Austria. They asserted the elective freedom of their crown, and boldly contended for all those preroga... ...arest and most deserving. The prejudices of the Bohemians in favour of the elective freedom of their crown, and their attachment to Leopold’s person, ... ... the Hungarians Matthias had not hesitated to com- ply. For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country jus- tifi... ...arians Matthias had not hesitated to com- ply. For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country jus- tified to him... ...to bequeath to him the succession, met with little or no opposition in the elective states of Austria. Even the Bohemi- ans agreed to receive him as t... ... hand alone their united power could be rendered available. The formidable monarchy which Charles V. and his son had unnaturally constructed of the Ne... ...rnal splendour concealed the inward wounds at which the life-blood of this monarchy was oozing; and the belief of its strength sur- vived, because it ... ... them to maintain their independence in a bloody war against the Span- ish monarchy. Aware how much they owed their own liberty to foreign support, th... ...- pute. Among the means of which Gustavus Vasa, the founder of the Swedish monarchy, availed himself to strengthen his new edifice, the Ref- ormation ...
...nd the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments; if a love of equal laws, of justice, and humanity i... ...ur poses of free, enlightened and efficient government. The whole system is elective, the complete sovereignty being in the people, and every officer... ... Roman, I fear that a strict examination of the annals of some of the modern elective governments would develop similar in stances of violated confid... ...made that at no very remote period the Government would terminate in virtual monarchy. It INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 8... ...from the potent influence it might exert in controlling the free dom of the elective franchise. If such could have then been the effects of its influ... ...iters upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is termed monarchy in contradistinc tion to despotism is correct, there was wantin... ...Congress. The influence of the Executive in controlling the free dom of the elective franchise through the medium of the public officers can be effec... ...n aristocracy. The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of ...
...hich, as nearest, one can hear best, claims with shrill vehemence that the Monarchy be as heretofore a Horn of Plenty; wherefrom loyal courtiers may d... ...eek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light children of Heathenism, Monarchy, Sentimentalism, and the Scarlet-woman. A spectacle indeed; over w... ...rial to the King, that if such things be listened to, Privilege, Nobility, Monarchy, Church, State and Strongbox are in danger. (Memoire presente au R... ...Erotics Sapphic-Werterean, Obscenities, Profanities; Books on the Prussian Monarchy, on Cagliostro, on Calonne, on the Water Companies of Paris:—each ... ...r into the fermenting-vat; there, with incalculable action, counteraction, elective affinities, ex- plosive developments, to work out healing for a si... ...the new equal-justice, of De- partmental Courts, National Appeal-Court, of elective Justices, Justices of Peace, and other Thouret-and-Duport apparatu... ...hall be adjusted, and Paris have its Con- stitution. A Constitution wholly Elective; as indeed all French Government shall and must be. And yet, one f... ... Old Municipals, on sight of the Full-powers, and mandate of the Sovereign elective People, lay down their functions; and this New Hundred and forty-f... ...ore- most, kick against the pricks! Is it not manifest infraction of one’s Elective Franchise, Rights of Man, and Sovereignty of the People, this appe...
...ive government, either as applied to legislation or to administration? The elective principle was widely used amongst them. Nay, the nicer casuistries... ...itia. Public authority and juris- diction were created and modified by the elective principle; but never was this principle applied to the creation or... ... peace for a distracted nation in 1647, on terms which seemed fatal to the monarchy; peace for the same nation under the prospect of war rising up aga... ...Gothic, Hunnish, and Avar monarchies.’ But, on consider- ation, the Gothic monarchy embosomed the germs of a noble civilization; whereas the Saracens ...
...t great commotion. I knew only that the French had thrown off the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV . and XV ., had put the King and Queen to death, guil... ...tion and mental improvement of all ranks of the people, under the Prussian monarchy, than under the English representative government: and he held, wi... ...s. For women not to make their claim to the suffrage, at the time when the elective franchise was being largely extended, would have been to abjure th...
...chemist learned his craft, who has explored the grav- ity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this ... ... that the rightful distinction was that the propri- etors should have more elective franchise than non-pro- prietors, on the Spartan principle of “cal... ...ords better with it. Born democrats, we are nowise quali- fied to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also re... ...sher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he com- pared a monarchy and a republic, saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sai...
...es, or Lower Houses and of the Legislative Council, or Upper House—are now elective, and are filled without direct influence from the Crown. The power... ...asure of individual freedom to all who live under it as a consti- tutional monarchy in which the Crown is divested of di- rect political power. I will... ...ol. 1 They call themselves republicans, and sneer at the idea of a limited monarchy, but they declare that there is no re- public so safe, so equal fo... ...ll “officers that now are, 246 North America V ol. 1 or hereafter may be, elective by the people.” Art, II. Sec. 1. “But,” the section goes on to say...
...ents some idea, il- lustrated by a fact told without artifice, but with an elective sureness of knowledge. The story of Tukang Burok’s love, related i... ...complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the conservative monarchy; Aus- trian statesmen did see at the time that the real dan- ger t...