New York State Quotes
That sheriffs and coroners be annually appointed; and that no person shall be capable of holding either of the said offices more than four years successively
This is but another example of term limits in early America.
New York, State Constitution, April 20, 1777
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See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Jeremy Bentham, George Mason, Henry Clay, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
Member of the Triumvirate. This was the set of laws for the Roman colony in Urso, Spain. It is much like Roman law and it is very valuable because so much of it has been preserved whereas the laws of Rome itself comes to us in fragments and from secondary sources. This is one of the first formal regulations regarding staffs of officials. In this case it was for a duumvir. Even though Rome had an Emperor, these and other positions were elected. This was a type of mayor or magistrate that combined the Judicial and Executive functions of a city of community. There were always TWO duumvirs of equal rank. This assured that one was more likely to be available at any time, but the major reason was that they could acts as a check and balance on each other. Lictors were security guards. The soothsayer was supposed to be able to divine the future. Today, the modern role is often filled by economists. Summoners were like sheriffs or process servers. The flutists do not have a modern equivalent but their role was to preceed the mayor so that people would know he was coming. This law was actually drafted by Julius Caesar. Antony later issued it.
Note that early constitutional experts assumed that one of the President’s roles was to be non partisan and control partisanship. Note the phrase ‘prevent the artifices of party’. The early founders were very wary of political parties of ‘factions’ as Madison called them. However, most were extremely partisan although in the Presidency partisanship was toned down by George Washington but after him, partisan ship became the norm.
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Jeremy Bentham, George Mason, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
The United States is almost unique among nations in their respect. While there are Federal law enforcement officers, the number is very small. For example, the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation complement of agents is outnumbered by one of the three shifts of the New York City Police Department. The vast majority of the police officers in America are not even at the State level; it is at the local level.
In the midst of the interview about Hurricane Rita, all the lights went our, but the mayor continued reporting on the effect of the hurricane in the pitch dark.
Many people have erroneously credited the water’s edge analogy to senator Arthur Vandenberg who made the same point very effectively in 1950. See {36673}.
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Jeremy Bentham, George Mason, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
See Edmund Burke and Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a similar view.
Coolidge had no involvement in politics after his Presidency. He was never consulted by his successor and never resented that fact.
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It was one of the original thirteen colonies forming the United States. With a total area of 54,556 square miles (141,300 km2), New York is the 27th largest state; its population of more than 19 million people as of 2020 makes it the fourth most populous state in the U.S. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. It is sometimes referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City, which is its largest city.
