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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 II GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS I Dangers In Autocratic Authority And Govern- Ment Ownership By Senator JAMES E. WATSON . Great questions have the habit of reappearing in human history. They reappear among all peoples and in all races; and since the establishment of this Republic we have been confronted at many periods with a tendency on the one hand to confer greater power upon the President, and on the other to confer greater authority upon the majority. In my judgment we are confronted with a condition that in the first place will add to the autocratic authority of one man, and on the other hand will give increasing power to the majority. These institutions of ours are based upon four fundamentals. They are, first, individual rights, and to preserve these individual rights a government threefold in character ? legislative, executive, and judicial. The four pillars of enduring representative government, founded upon a constitution and preserved by its provisions, are, therefore, individual rights, the power of the legislature, the power of the executive, and the power of the courts. If either one of these pillars be pulled down, by any blind Samson, the whole edifice will crumble and fall to ruin. Therefore, when we consider the result of giving increased power either to the President or to the people of the United States, we threaten the invasion of the sphere of representative government from both sides. What do I mean by that proposition? We all know that for many years in this country the inevitable, aye, the well-nigh irresistible, tendency has been to augment the authority of the President. This has resulted, first, because of the general demand of the people, who almost universally believe in the President and insist on his sole leadership; and, ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217038805 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217038808 |
| Weight | 0.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 264 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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