ISBN: 9781458894526

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V THE REPRESENTATIVE AND HIS PARTY The last problem we have to consider is the relation of the representative to his own party. I will begin by referring to certain statements by President Hadley in that lecture on the Workings of our Political Machinery to which I have referred before and which all of you should certainly read. It is full of the wisest comment. Mr. Hadley speaks of the difficulty, under our present system, of getting efficient legislation, due to the fact that to a very large extent our representatives are not sent to Congress to make laws or to govern the country; that under our constitutional system the President cannot govern alone and Congress cannot govern alone; that this separation leads often to such a dead-lock that the representative is much more concerned with problems of place and patronage and the wants of his district--questions which I discussed briefly in the last lecture--than he is with questions relating to legislation in behalf of the general welfare. Mr. Hadley thinks that as a necessary consequence the political boss has become a more powerful figure in actual government than the elective representative of the people. I cannot consider in detail the many interesting suggestions which he makes in connection with these matters and I agree with him very largely in all that he says when his remarks are applied, as he suggests in one passage, to the workings of our political machinery at the end of the nineteenth century. What I wish to suggest here is that I believe we have been going through a change in recent years which is of the utmost importance and which the future historian may write down as revolutionary in character. In his preface Mr. Hadley suggests that if anyone should take up the book a few yea... Henry Crosby Emery, Books, Science and Nature, Politician, Party And People; Addresses Delivered In The Page Lecture Series, 1912, Before The Senior Class Of The Sheffield Scien Books>Science and Nature This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Addresses Delivered in the Page Lecture Series, 1912, Before the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University; Original Published by: Yale university press in 1913 in 200 pages; Subjects: Political ethics; United States; Political parties; Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Process / Elections; Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties; Political Science / Political Process / General;<

ISBN: 9781458894526

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V THE REPRESENTATIVE AND HIS PARTY The last problem we have to consider is the relation of the representative to his own party. I will begin by referring to certain statements by President Hadley in that lecture on the Workings of our Political Machinery to which I have referred before and which all of you should certainly read. It is full of the wisest comment. Mr. Hadley speaks of the difficulty, under our present system, of getting efficient legislation, due to the fact that to a very large extent our representatives are not sent to Congress to make laws or to govern the country; that under our constitutional system the President cannot govern alone and Congress cannot govern alone; that this separation leads often to such a dead-lock that the representative is much more concerned with problems of place and patronage and the wants of his district--questions which I discussed briefly in the last lecture--than he is with questions relating to legislation in behalf of the general welfare. Mr. Hadley thinks that as a necessary consequence the political boss has become a more powerful figure in actual government than the elective representative of the people. I cannot consider in detail the many interesting suggestions which he makes in connection with these matters and I agree with him very largely in all that he says when his remarks are applied, as he suggests in one passage, to the workings of our political machinery at the end of the nineteenth century. What I wish to suggest here is that I believe we have been going through a change in recent years which is of the utmost importance and which the future historian may write down as revolutionary in character. In his preface Mr. Hadley suggests that if anyone should take up the book a few yea... Henry Crosby Emery, Books, Science and Nature, Politician, Party And People; Addresses Delivered In The Page Lecture Series, 1912, Before The Senior Class Of The Sheffield Scien Books>Science and Nature, General Books LLC<