The Spirit of American Government; a Study of the Construction ; Its Origin, Influence And Relation to Democracy
The Spirit of American Government; a Study of the Construction ; Its Origin, Influence And Relation to Democracy
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By thus increasing the number of bodies which it was necessary for the people to control m order to secure the legislation which they desired, their power to influence the policy of the state government was thereby diminished. And when we reflect that not only was legislative au- 234 STATE CONSTITUTIONS thority more widely distributed, but each branch of the state government exercising it was also made less directly dependent on the qualified voters, we can see that these constitutional pro- vi...sions were in the nature of checks on the numerical majority.
A consideration of the changes made in the method of amending the state constitutions leads to the same conclusion. During the Revolution- ary period, as we have seen, the tendency was strongly toward making the fundamental law the expression of the will of the numerical majority.
Difficulties in the way of change were reduced to a minimum. But under the influence of the political reaction which followed, and which pro- duced the Constitution of the United States, the state governments were so organized as to make it more difficult for the majority to exercise the amending power.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By thus increasing the number of bodies which it was necessary for the people to control m order to secure the legislation which they desired, their power to influence the policy of the state government was thereby diminished. And when we reflect that not only was legislative au- 234 STATE CONSTITUTIONS thority more widely distributed, but each branch of the state government exercising it was also made less directly dependent on the qualified voters, we can see that these constitutional pro- vi...sions were in the nature of checks on the numerical majority.
A consideration of the changes made in the method of amending the state constitutions leads to the same conclusion. During the Revolution- ary period, as we have seen, the tendency was strongly toward making the fundamental law the expression of the will of the numerical majority.
Difficulties in the way of change were reduced to a minimum. But under the influence of the political reaction which followed, and which pro- duced the Constitution of the United States, the state governments were so organized as to make it more difficult for the majority to exercise the amending power.
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