The Budget and Responsible Government: A Description and Interpretation of the Struggle for Responsible Government in the United States, with Special Reference to Recent Changes in State Constitutions and Statute Laws Providing for Administrative Reorganization and Budget ReformMacmillan, 1920 - Počet stran: 406 |
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... ACTION FOR SOCIAL WEL- FARE . By Jeremiah W. Jenks , Ph.D. , LL.D. , Cornell University . 5. SOCIAL INSURANCE . A PROGRAM OF So- CIAL REFORM . By Henry Rogers Sea- ger , Ph.D. , Columbia University . 6. SOCIAL REFORM AND THE ...
... ACTION FOR SOCIAL WEL- FARE . By Jeremiah W. Jenks , Ph.D. , LL.D. , Cornell University . 5. SOCIAL INSURANCE . A PROGRAM OF So- CIAL REFORM . By Henry Rogers Sea- ger , Ph.D. , Columbia University . 6. SOCIAL REFORM AND THE ...
Strana viii
... action is nec- essary to enable the administration adequately to meet public needs . . . . That the President , under the powers given to him by the constitution is in a better position than any one else to dramatize the work of the ...
... action is nec- essary to enable the administration adequately to meet public needs . . . . That the President , under the powers given to him by the constitution is in a better position than any one else to dramatize the work of the ...
Strana xi
... action was taken look- ing toward the introduction of a budgetary procedure by forty - four of the states and scores of cities . And now , out of the entanglements of war finance the question has come back to bother Congress . During ...
... action was taken look- ing toward the introduction of a budgetary procedure by forty - four of the states and scores of cities . And now , out of the entanglements of war finance the question has come back to bother Congress . During ...
Strana xiii
... actions of their agents in which they are interested . The great problem of popular government on its practical side is to create machinery by which those for whom govern- ment is carried on , and who should control and direct gov ...
... actions of their agents in which they are interested . The great problem of popular government on its practical side is to create machinery by which those for whom govern- ment is carried on , and who should control and direct gov ...
Strana xviii
... action of the committee after the committee has made its report , the Administration should be heard . It is suggested that the heads of departments could hardly support and defend estimates which had been pruned down or changed by the ...
... action of the committee after the committee has made its report , the Administration should be heard . It is suggested that the heads of departments could hardly support and defend estimates which had been pruned down or changed by the ...
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Strana 43 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Strana 80 - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually.
Strana 80 - Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt been made to study all of these activities and agencies with a view to the assignment of each activity to the agency best fitted for its performance, to the avoidance of duplication of plant and work, to the integration of all administrative agencies of the government, so far as may be practicable, into a unified organization for the most effective and economical dispatch...
Strana 170 - The commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
Strana 146 - Lieutenant-Governor shall be elected at the same time and for the same term as the Governor, and his qualifications and the manner and ascertainment of his election, in all respects, shall be the same.
Strana 44 - ... me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may ' that Infinite Power which rules the destinies...
Strana 8 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Strana 47 - Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government: to throw the light of publicity on its acts: to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which any one considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable...
Strana 224 - Treasurer's notes, or for the payment of interest arising thereon) but by warrant under the hand of the Governor for the time being...
Strana 32 - From the days of Fenton and Conkling and Arthur and Cornell and Platt, from the days of David B. Hill, down to the present time, ths government of the state has presented two different lines of activity, one of the constitutional and statutory officers of the state and the other of the party leaders. They call them party bosses. They call the system — I...