Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references:- T, W. Wilson on Cabinet Government in the United States, in International Review August, 1879; or H. White in Nation, vol. 28, p. 243.
I, The present system of transacting business in congress is unsatisfactory and would be greatly improved by the proposed exchnage:- Senator Hoar in North American Review, Feb. 1879, Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of our Government, pp. 4-8; Nation, vol., 46 p. 279 et seq.
III. Appointments of cabinet officers would be made on grounds of efficiency and not from political or focal considerations:- International Review pp. 157-1603; The Political Working of Our Government, pp. 8-9; Nation, vol 38, p. 243.
IV. Better measures would result from this exchange:- Overland Monthly vol 3, p. 17; Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government pp. 261 and 262.
I. Such harmony is not essential; (a) our form of government is one of checks and balances; (b) our constitution secures as much harmony between the departments as is consistent with their independence-Morrill's Speech, thirty-eighth congress, second session, p. 421.