Author: John OrdronauxPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484472227
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Excerpt from Constitutional Legislation in the United States, Its Origin, and Application to the Relative Powers of Congress, and of State Legislatures The accompanying work is an attempt to present in a con crete form the entire system of Federal and State legislation, as practised under a written Constitution in the United States. Its object is to expound those administrative powers which, in our dual form of representative government, are sovereign within their several spheres of action. In tracing them along their respective borderlines to points where they either concur in Operation, or conflict in jurisdiction, it has been necessary to explore the channels of our constitutional jurisprudence in their affiliated relations with statutory law. A written Constitution is. A political grammar to whose rules administrative laws must conform, in order to give them judicial validity. Accordingly, the author's aim has been to exhibit the foundations of our political system to trace its development. Into a Federal government of balanced powers, and to search out the reasons which animate their exercise, as historically evolved and judicially interpreted. Under a political system framed as is ours, the most important legal forces are unquestionably those sovereign powers of Federal and State legislation which, in their governmental relations, bear to each other certain quasi-inter national aspects. The government of forty-four independent States, dwelling in harmonious relations under a supervisory Federal sovereignty, would seem, therefore, to justify the treatment of Legislation as a department of jurisprudence meriting more textual consideration than it. Has yet received. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
