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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Strana viii
... called upon to vote for or against the plan or program to be financed , section by section and as a whole . In this con- nection it is claimed that the recognized purpose of com- mittees of Congress should be to find out what is being ...
... called upon to vote for or against the plan or program to be financed , section by section and as a whole . In this con- nection it is claimed that the recognized purpose of com- mittees of Congress should be to find out what is being ...
Strana xx
... called routine expenses , but that is due to the complete absence of restraint upon executive estimates . Each bureau chief and each department head now make estimates and no- body curbs them . The executive budget places responsi ...
... called routine expenses , but that is due to the complete absence of restraint upon executive estimates . Each bureau chief and each department head now make estimates and no- body curbs them . The executive budget places responsi ...
Strana 17
... called to account by having them appear before the controlling body to report on their stewardship and to submit proposals for change in administrative law and grants of authority ; ( 2 ) by members of the controlling group itself ...
... called to account by having them appear before the controlling body to report on their stewardship and to submit proposals for change in administrative law and grants of authority ; ( 2 ) by members of the controlling group itself ...
Strana 48
... called Comptroller and Auditor General . This official was placed beyond the reach of the administration by being given an independent status with tenure for life . Gladstone also insisted that his political adversaries , the organized ...
... called Comptroller and Auditor General . This official was placed beyond the reach of the administration by being given an independent status with tenure for life . Gladstone also insisted that his political adversaries , the organized ...
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... called on this side of the line , with little opportunity given to the opposition leaders to let the people and their representatives know what the facts are before a vote is taken — and the vote has been largely a matter of testing ...
... called on this side of the line , with little opportunity given to the opposition leaders to let the people and their representatives know what the facts are before a vote is taken — and the vote has been largely a matter of testing ...
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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...