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 vi
... opinion . The method of exposition is historical and descriptive of the devices developed in response to the popular demand that public business shall be " vis- ible " and that leadership shall be " responsible . " After laying down the ...
... opinion . The method of exposition is historical and descriptive of the devices developed in response to the popular demand that public business shall be " vis- ible " and that leadership shall be " responsible . " After laying down the ...
Strana viii
... opinion when de- ciding whether or not the proposals are such as will best meet welfare demands . " 2. That " as an incident to such procedure it is thought that there must necessarily develop a system of represen- tation which will ...
... opinion when de- ciding whether or not the proposals are such as will best meet welfare demands . " 2. That " as an incident to such procedure it is thought that there must necessarily develop a system of represen- tation which will ...
Strana ix
... opinion almost from the start concerning the relative merits of the proposals for a na- tional budget system , especially with respect to the loca- tion of the budget bureau and the concentrating of re- sponsibility for the initiation ...
... opinion almost from the start concerning the relative merits of the proposals for a na- tional budget system , especially with respect to the loca- tion of the budget bureau and the concentrating of re- sponsibility for the initiation ...
Strana 6
... opinion , including all classes , arrived at after due deliberation ; i . e . , after each ques- tion at issue has been clearly stated , the facts supporting the claims and contentions of all parties are made known , and the arguments ...
... opinion , including all classes , arrived at after due deliberation ; i . e . , after each ques- tion at issue has been clearly stated , the facts supporting the claims and contentions of all parties are made known , and the arguments ...
Strana 7
... opinion is taken . Public opinion to be just , must be deliberate ; and it is a primary duty of all democratic society to provide the means to make it such . Where Justice Resides Given adequate means of enlightenment , democratic ...
... opinion is taken . Public opinion to be just , must be deliberate ; and it is a primary duty of all democratic society to provide the means to make it such . Where Justice Resides Given adequate means of enlightenment , democratic ...
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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...