Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public servic:- Nation, March 7, 14, 21, April 4, 25; The American, March 9; Boston Post, April 22. (2) He has violated his pledge:- Nation, March 28, April 11, 18, 25, May 2; Boston Post, May 6; The American, April 13; Civil Service Record for May; Public Opinion, April 20; Boston Herald, April...
...appointments of the administration have not tended to strengthen the party:- Public Opinion, April 6; Boston Post, May 6, March...
...position of the two independent houses, and the subserviency of one to the other, (b) a cabinet chosen from the majority; (c) the resignation of the cabinet after defeat; (d) the power to order dissolution, and a new election, and the ability to form an accurate index of public opinion from the result; (e) pressure on the states, on the courts, and the fusion of of executive and legislative deportments:- Von Holst a Constitutional Law, sections 25 and 26; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 57, p. 180; Bryce's American Commonwealth...
...Torrey, '90, who spoke somewhat as follows: The question lies at the basis of democratic government. There are two standpoints from which this question should be looked at the one, the advantages to the individual, and the other, the advantages to the government. Democratic government stands for individual opinion, and in this, differs from all other forms of government. Under the second head he read a short passage from Professor Sumner of Yale, to the effect that the lobby and its evils are fatal in their indifference to true democratic government. Mr. Torrey cited in support of this statement...
...Smith, L. S., closed the debate for the affirmative. He said in brief: There must of necessity be political parties, but they should be run by people who think clearly and vote as they think. Without the present existing parties the opinion of the voters of this country would divide themselves into two and only two parties...