This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...and whose reform must begin in what it is now beginning to receive, pitiless publicity. The remedies which he proposes are the executive veto, an enforced system of local contributions to national publicwork projects (no money to be appropriated out of the federal treasury for such works unless covered by a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...and whose reform must begin in what it is now beginning to receive, pitiless publicity. The remedies which he proposes are the executive veto, an enforced system of local contributions to national publicwork projects (no money to be appropriated out of the federal treasury for such works unless covered by a corresponding appropriation of local funds), a system of election that will make Congressmen more representative of definite public opinion than of locality, the substitution of party for individual responsibility, and administrative commissions. But in relation to the control which the executive may constitutionally exercise over a wasteful or improvident legislature, the author does not approve the grant to the President or state governor of the authority to veto separate items in appropriation bills. His argument is that detailed appropriation bills, with the items all segregated, are not desirable, and that to bills not expressed in details, but in lump sums, the selective veto would be inapplicable. Judicial, Review In Customs TaxaTion. America's Customs Administrative Court, the Board of United States General Appraisers. By George Stewart Brown. Pamphlet. Boards. Forum Publishing Co., 1918. This interesting little volume reviews the principles which govern the fundamental right of the free citizens of a democracy to an easy, expeditious, and inexpensive judicial review against the illegal exaction of taxes by the administrative officers of the government. On the one hand, it is necessary that the government should be able to collect its taxes promptly. It cannot await the result of a long litigation. Also it is necessary that disputed questions of rate, value, liability, and classification should be determined in the first instance by the assessing...
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