As Sir Henry Maine rightly says, the framers of our Constitution, consciously or unconsciously, made the President’s office like the King’s office under the English constitution of their time,--the constitution, namely, of George III., who chose his advisers with or without the assent of Parliament.
Wilson analyzes the similarities between the U.S. presidency and the British monarchy during George III's reign.
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Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.
We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.
The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this country.
One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.
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