Government and Politics of FranceWorld Book Company, 1920 - 478 sider |
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Side 7 - The Chambers shall have the right by separate resolutions, taken in each by an absolute majority of votes, either upon their own initiative or upon the request of the President of the Republic, to declare a revision of the Constitutional Laws necessary. After each of the two Chambers shall have come to this decision they shall meet together in National Assembly to proceed with the revision. The acts effecting revision of the constitutional laws, in whole or in part, must be by an absolute majority...
Side 306 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Side 43 - It is his function to be a guide and adviser for public opinion in times of crisis, to seek to make a rational choice among conflicting interests, to distinguish the general from the particular, the permanent from the accidental, to strive to disentangle in each new idea the stillborn portion from that part which may be kept for the future as living and productive.
Side 247 - Dreyfus affair was utilised by the reactionaries against the republic, by the clericals against the non-Catholics, by the anti-clericals against the Church, by the military party against the parliamentarians, and by the revolutionary socialists against the army. It was also conspicuously utilised by rival republican politicians against one another, and the chaos of political groups was further confused by it.
Side 204 - As the link, and sometimes the buffer, between the central administration and the local area, "he concentrates in his own person," as a French authority once wrote, "the perpetual conflict of authority and freedom. . . . He is at once the agent of the government, the tool of the party, and the representative of the area which he administers." Prefects are usually selected by promotion from certain grades of the administrative service. They are appointed officially by the Council of Ministers but...
Side 203 - placed between universal suffrage, which really rules, and the central power, which wishes to govern, he [the prefect] is between the anvil and the hammer. Since he is concerned in everything, he concentrates in his own person the perpetual conflict of authority and freedom. ... He is at once the agent of the government, the tool of the party, and the representative of the area which he administers.
Side 360 - The prefect, accompanied by his secretary and the councillors of prefecture, all in full uniform, speedily arrives at the hotel to pay his return visit, and after him come, in what order they please, the general, the bishop, the mayor of the town, the president, assessor, and public prosecutor of the local tribunal, the Central Commissioner of Police, and divers other functionaries. They make but a short stay, and as soon as they are gone the judges divest themselves of their robes, and set out to...
Side 140 - Chamber shall be prosecuted or held responsible on account of any opinions expressed or votes cast by him in the performance of his duties.
Side 109 - The Senate may be constituted a Court of Justice to try either the President of the Republic or the ministers, and to take cognizance of attacks made upon the safety of the state.
Side 359 - ... assizes, and on him devolve all the principal duties, ceremonial and other. The judges arrive in the town without any display, but as soon as they have alighted at the chief hotel in the place they must begin paying their official visits in a carriage and pair. They are bound to call first on the prefect, on the commander of the garrison if he be a general of division, and on the diocesan if he be an archbishop, and the visits in such cases must be paid in their scarlet robes. If, however, the...