Word: ballots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...executive and legislative branches of the Government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government." Said Mr. Justice Roberts for the majority: "It is sometimes said that the Court assumes a power to overrule or control the action of the people's representatives. This is a misconception. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ordained and established...
Remaining two issues on the ballot, government crop control and automobile traffic, will be discussed the following weeks, while it is planned to distribute further sets of ballots during the succeeding months...
...that the results are inconclusive because of the difficulty of replaying to the question by a simple "yes" or "no." Two persons each in favor of old-age insurance but each opposed to any plan approaching that of Mr. Townsend would have been in a position to mark their ballot either...
Another probable error urged by many critics was that Digest ballots went to telephone subscribers and automobile owners, who necessarily do not include many unemployed, many women, many young people lately come of voting age-all groups presumably strong for the New Deal (see col. 3). To this the Digest answered that its ballot was taken just as in 1932. when the election of Roosevelt was predicted with an error of less than...
Traditionally the Conservatives headed by Stanley Baldwin are the Party in the United Kingdom least sympathetic to the League of Nations. A nationwide peace ballot proved last summer that at least 11,000,000 British voters are highly sympathetic to the League. When as Prime Minister it became Stanley Baldwin's object to win the General Election, his outstanding campaign move was to convince the electorate that the Baldwin Cabinet and the Conservative Party had become highly sympathetic to the League. They had not only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they...