Pieter Vreede Quotes
Who does not know that the appointment to the Presidential chair is impossible without intrigue. By such means the Assembly is mastered, commissions selected, and reports concluded…. The Assembly is forced into discussing matters in such a way that the fate of the People is always decided by recommended opinion of the few. Have the People elected their representatives merely to succumb to the influence of these few.
The National Assembly at the time was the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch all at the same time. “Intrigue” referred to a panoply of questionable behaviors including bribes, promises of jobs, appointments, threats of slander, personal destruction and other corrupt practices.
Pieter Vreede, 1750–1837, Dutch Politician, Revolutionist & Political Writer, Leader of the National Democracy Advocates, Outcry to the Batavian Nation, 1795
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Many of the other members of the National Assembly criticized him for “washing the Assembly’s laundry” in public. They argued that the people would lose confidence in the National Assembly. The National Assembly at the time was the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch all at the same time. See {639833} for an example of the public statements he made. “Dissemble” means to lie or shade the truth with the intent of deceiving.
Speaking then as a congressman:. those of the voters of a particular district
The House Rules Committee had evolved into a very powerful committee which controlled the debate rules of every piece of legislation that came before the House. This Congress—the worst in American History—passed fewer bills than any other. Those that ever got out of the Rules Committee had Rules that prohibited the minority from even offering amendments.
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.
In the struggle for political power, this is often forgotten. During the Barak Administration, the President proposed measures that had been introduced and supported by his Republican opponents earlier. But they then not only failed to support them but often filibustered in the Senate to block them. The Democrats failed to support some of their ideas when President Eisenhower introduced them.
the power a ruler or a ruling class
Grigory Zinoviev was one of the original leaders of Revolutionary Russia and the early Communist Russian Government. The reason that this is a noteworthy quotation is that it shows that flip flops and hypocrisy seem to be present in all political systems, democratic as ours is as well as others.
He addressed the Prince in the Royal 3rd person “the Prince” instead of saying “You”, the 2nd more familiar person. “Stadtholder” meant Chief Executive and Ruler. Bentinck was the Stadtholder of a Province. Prince William was Stadtholder of all of Holland. Bentinck was one of the few politicians who could and would be so candid with the Stadtholder whose cronies and friends were aristocrats who had much damaged the state and were very unpopular. William did not act and died shortly thereafter. The House of Orange and the Orangists, despite strong English support, were turned out in the Dutch Revolution.
- Born: October 8, 1750
- Died: September 21, 1837
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Pieter Vreede was a Dutch politician of the Batavian Republic in the 18th century. Vreede was born in Leiden and died in Heusden. He was a prominent critic of stadholderian misrule and of the urban patriciate.
