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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XL THE PARTY SYSTEM The three chief contributions which the United States has made to political science regarded as an Applied Science or Practical Art have been: Rigid or so-called Written Constitutions, which, as being the expressions of the supreme will of the people, limit the powers of the different branches of government. The use of Courts of Law to interpret Rigid Constitutions and secure their authority by placing their provisions out of the reach of legislative or executive action. The organization of political parties. Of these the first two are precautions against, or mitigations of, faults to which democracy is liable; while the third has proved to be an aggravation of those faults, undoing part of the good which the two former were doing, and impairing popular sovereignty itself. Yet party organization is a natural and probably an inevitable incident of democratic government. It has in itself nothing pernicious. Its evils have sprung from its abuses. We can now perceive that these evils are an outgrowth of the system likely to appear wherever it attains full development. But are they inevitable evils? Could they have been prevented if foreseen? Can they now be cut away without impairing such utility as the system possesses? This is a problem, the American people have been trying to solve; and their efforts deserve to be studied. Before describing the structure of the Organizations, let us enquire how Party came to cover the field and affect the working of politics more widely in America than elsewhere. The political issues on which parties formed themselves after the establishment of the Federal Constitution were National issues. The first of these arose between those who sought to give full scope to Federal power and those whosought to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217025126 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217025129 |
| Weight | 1.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.12 In |
| List Price | $36.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 502 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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