Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League, Volumen13The League, 1905 |
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Página 187 - Towering over Presidents and State governors, over Congress and State legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it.
Página 189 - States, except in cases of impeachment ; to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Página 214 - The said superintendent and every such examiner shall have power to administer an oath to any person whose testimony may be required on any such examination, and to compel the appearance and attendance of any such person for the purpose of...
Página 331 - A petition signed by electors entitled to vote for a successor of the incumbent sought to be removed, equal in number to at least twelve per cent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding election for all candidates for the office...
Página 213 - ... in accordance with forms and methods prescribed by him, which shall be applicable to all cities within the state. Such reports shall be printed as a part of the public documents of the state, and submitted by the * to the legislature at its regular session next succeeding the making of such report.
Página 43 - Problems. .. . .,,-,nal ^ be equitable and politic under the circumstances surrounding one community might be disastrous and oppressive in the case of another; an attempt to subject them to hard - and - fast general rules savors of doctrinaire omniscience and may readily become a source of practical injustice. There is about enough truth in this criticism to make its underlying error worthy of correction. This error is two-fold : how to obtain good government in each of our American municipalities...
Página 310 - ... to select candidates for alderman, members of Assembly, state senators, the elective city and county officials, congressmen and other elective officers, each such officer being chosen by the special constituency established by law. The number of delegates which the association was entitled to have in the county committee or the nominating convention did not depend upon the number of the members in the association, but upon the number of votes cast in the town, ward or district at the last general...
Página 314 - primary election," as used in this act, shall be construed so as to embrace all elections held by any political party, convention, organization or association, or delegates therefrom, for the purpose of choosing candidates for office or the election of delegates to other conventions, or for the purpose of electing officers of any political party, organization, convention or association.
Página 213 - Such reports shall contain an accurate statement, in summarized form and also in detail, of the financial receipts of the city from all sources, and of the expenditures of the city for all purposes, together with a statement in detail of the debt of said city at the date of said report, and of the purposes for which such debt has been incurred, as well as such other information as may be required by 11.
Página 324 - First. The election of delegates to all political conventions except conventions made up of delegates who by the rules and regulations of the party are chosen by other nnu ' conventions and not at primary elections. . . . "Second. For the nomination of all candidates* for public office to be voted for at the ensuing election who by rule adopted by a party . . . are to be nominated at a primary and not at a convention.