Hans Frank Quotes
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
International Military Tribunal. Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946. Vol. 12, Secretariat of the Tribunal, 1947, p. 10.
Two years later with bipartisan support Speaker Joseph Cannon was stripped of his party and the Rules Committee was created.
The Tennessee legislature nominated Jackson for President.
Patrick Henry, a political opponent of Madison's, spread rumors in Madison's Virginia home district that Madison was perfectly satisfied with the Constitution as it was drafted. Madison felt the need to set the record straight, and this letter was widely circulated by his friends.
The conservative Senator was very distrustful of the constitutional amendment process itself after a both prohibition and women's suffrage amendments had passed. Wadsworth and his supporters feared Constitutional amendments passed by Congress and the State legislatures without any direct approval of the people.
Though not very dramatic or succinct, this is a very important quotation in American History. The original drafters of the Constitution concentrated on limiting the powers of the executive—the role of the King. But the Congress had no limits placed on them. In Britain, to this day, the Parliament can do whatever they wish as there is no restraint on them other than their prudence and reasonableness. Madison used the example of the Alien and Sedition Acts—huge infringements on the rights of Americans—to show why the legislative branch must also be more restrained and limited. And that was the logic behind adding the Bill of Rights to our Constitutions.
Vidal, a staunch liberal held this view along with many ultra conservatives end extreme liberals. The constitution requires the Congress to declare war, but they have not done so for any of the wars since WWII. The President assumed the war power. And the only coherent budgets began.
See Montesquieu {607909} for an earlier, similar view.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Bolivar was a much greater military freedom fighter for democracy than he was as a democratic civilian leader.
He, in a speech to Parliament, had criticized the Iranian Judiciary on several counts, He was then reprimanded for doing so.
Hans Michael Frank was a German politician and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Poland during the Second World War.
