 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 472 sider
...Legislature of two houses, and a press of considerable freedom. But the peers are lost in the secresy of their sessions ; and the deputies can hardly be...restrictions. Reports and publications of the debates are unauthorized, and of course imperfect, notwithstanding the exploits of stenography. Although Parliament... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...Legislature of two houses, and a press of considerable freedom. But the peers are lost in the secrcsy of their sessions ; and the deputies can hardly be...but by clerks hired for that purpose ; to which is owini: much of the inordinate tautology and technicality of modern acts of Parliament. In theory and... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 sider
...members ; in practice, debates occur and laws are enacted usually in the presence of fifty or sixty. Most of the bills are drafted, not by members, but by clerks hired for that purpose; leaving the dignitaries to relieve the stupidity of their stammering debates with frequent cries of... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 498 sider
...members ; in practice, debates occur and laws are enacted usually in the presence of fifty or sixty. Most of the bills are drafted, not by members, but by clerks hired for that * A change is going on 1 purpose ; leaving the dignitaries to relieve the stupidity of their stammering... | |
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... for legislatures, consisting of single assemblies ; a constitution, which, in America, would not be thought worth so much bloodshed. ' The much abused French revolution has given to that country a Legislature of two houses, and a press of considerable... 