Reviews : CORWIN, EDWARD S. National Supremacy: Treaty Power vs. State Power. Pp. viii, 321. Price, $1.50. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1913
| Author | L.S. Rowe |
| Published date | 01 May 1914 |
| Date | 01 May 1914 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/000271621405300133 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
321
In
Part
I
are
discussed
the
conflict
between
absolutism
and
feudalism
on
the
one
side
and
self
government
and
democracy
on
the
other,
the
transplanting
of
fictions
of
absolutism
in
America
and
the
distribution
of
powers
among
American
officials
and
other
absolute
principles
of
American
government.
In
Part
II
are
briefly
discussed
the
rights
that
citizens
have
as
against
their
gov-
ernment,
the
duties
and
responsibility
of
citizens
as
such
(and
he
does
not
in-
clude
among
them
the
moral
responsibility
of
writing
to
their
congressmen),
and
direct
legislation
by
which
citizens
may
directly
participate
in
govern-
mental
acts.
In
Part
III
are
discussed
the
evolution
of
qualifications
for
the
suffrage,
the
exclusion
of
the
unfit
therefrom,
the
inclusion
of
women,
the
for-
mulation
of
electoral
issues,
nominations
of
candidates,
registration
of
voters,
legal
safeguards
in
casting
and
counting
of
ballots.
Part
IV
describes
how
the
electorate
is
utilized
in
passing
on
constitutional
provisions,
on
laws,
and
the
provisions
for,
and
the
judicial
decisions
pertaining
to,
direct
legislation.
The
provisions
for
making
public
officers
responsible
and
responsive
are
discussed.
These
include
the
direct
choice
of
senators,
the
protection
given
to
legislators,
the
recall,
legislative
reference
bureaus,
the
restraint
on
legislators
by
the
bill
of
rights,
the
means
of
fixing
responsibility
on
executive
officers
through
the
right
of
inquiry,
publicity,
civil
service
and
the
restraint
on
judicial
officers.
Dr.
Cleveland
sees
the
hope
of
the
future
in
the
awakening
of
the
electorate
as
evidenced,
among
other
things,
by
the
demand
by
women
for
the
ballot,
and
in
the
new
movement
to
give
to
the
government
a
social
purpose
and
to
dispense
with
the
doctrine
of
laissez
faire.
Among
the
means
still
to
be
provided
for
making
the
popular
will
effective,
he
especially
emphasizes
proper
provisions
for
budget
making,
efficiency
records
and
reports,
and
other
provisions
for
poignant
publicity.
University
of
Pennsylvania.
CLYDE
LYNDON
KING.
CORWIN,
EDWARD
S.
National
Supremacy:
Treaty
Power
vs.
State
Power.
Pp.
viii,
321.
Price,
$1.50.
New
York:
Henry
Holt
and
Company,
1913.
During
the
last
few
years
there
has
been
much
discussion
of
the
scope
and
limits of
the
treaty-making
power
of
the
United
States.
The
subj ect
is
one
which
for
many
decades
has
occupied
the
attention
of
commentators
on
consti-
tutional
law,
but
during
recent
years
it
has
become
an
acute
international
question.
The
helplessness
of
the
government
of
the
United
States
in
giving
adequate
protection
to
foreigners
resident
within
the
states,
and
the
humiliat-
ing
position
in
which
the President
has
been
placed
in
replying
to
the
protests
of
foreign
governments
have
gradually
developed
a
body
of
opinion
in
favor
of
the
extension
of
federal
authority
in
dealing
with
the
treaty
rights
of
resident
aliens.
The
long
series
of
outrages
on
foreigners
beginning
with
the
Chinese
massacres
in
1895
gave
to
the
United
States
an
unenviable
reputation
in
inter-
national
dealings.
These
outrages
were a
constant
source
of
international
irritation,
and
one
cannot
but
feel
that
foreign
governments
were
deserving
of
great
credit
for
the
patience
and
forbearance
shown
when
their
citizens
and
sub-
jects
suffered
by
reason
of
mob
violence.
This
question
of
the
scope
of
the
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