Word: congress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular fortnightly meeting of the Harvard Union was held in Sever 11 last evening. After the reading of the minutes the following question was chosen by a viva voce vote for the next debate: "Resolved, that a national divorce law should be enacted by Congress." Walter Scott, Sp., S. L. Friedenburg, '93, and C. Beardsley, jr., Sp., were elected members of the Union. It was moved by Mr. E. S. Griffing, and ordered by the Union that in the future the names of the executive committee be printed over the programme of the evening, and that a committee...
...Harvard Union tonight are: 1 Resolved, That the internal revenue tax on tobacco, and spirits used in the arts should be removed; 2, That the duties of the Supreme court should be lessened by the establishment of intermediate courts; 3, That a national divorce law should be enacted by congress...
Question: Resolved, That a system of responsible leadership should be substituted for the committee system now in congress...
...Responsible leaders must have the confidence of congress...
...Such a system is entirely foreign to the theory of the constitution. Our whole system of checks and balances would be destroyed. (a) The executive would be merged in the legislative. (b) The weaker of the Houses of Congress would succumb to the stronger. (c) The equal representation of the states will be lost-Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, February, 1886; Von Holst Constitutional Law S25 S26; Hare Constitution al Law, pp. 175-180; Nation, 28-243; Pomeroy Constitutional...