The Rise And Growth of American Politics; a Sketch of Constitutional Development
The Rise And Growth of American Politics; a Sketch of Constitutional Development
Ford, Henry Jones, 1851-1925
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I. , p. 49. 208 TRANSFORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 209 He likened it to "the sublime spectacle" that was seen in the city states of antiquity, " when the Roman citizen advanced to the polls and pro- claimed : 'I vote for Cato to be Consul'; the Athenian, ' I vote for Aristides to be Archon ' ; the Theban, ' I vote for Pelopidas to be Boeotrach ' ; the Lacedaemonian, ' I vote for Leonidas to be first of the Ephori. ' ' That there would be any diffi- culty in exercising a real choice does not see...m to have occurred to Benton, but the point was clearly discerned by Calhoun's penetrating intellect. He argued that the natural incompetency of the peo- ple to judge in such a case would inevitably trans- fer the real selection to a few managers. Like Benton, he held that "the complex and refined machinery provided by the constitution for the election of the President and Vice-President is vir- tually superseded "; and that "the nomination of the successful party, by irresponsible individuals, makes, in reality, the choice.
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