Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution

The second class of limitations upon official power provided in our constitution prescribe and maintain the distribution of power to the different departments of government and...

The familiar saying that nothing is settled until it is settled right expresses only a half truth. Questions of general and permanent importance are seldom finally settled. A ve...

Some of these methods have been made a part of the constitutional system of a considerable number of our states. They have been accompanied invariably by provisions for very sho...

The Roman consuls derived their power from the people and were responsible to the people; but Rome went on pretending that the emperors and their servants were consuls long afte...