Footnote 541: Separated from Finance in 1889.[(Back)]
Footnote 542: Art. 66. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 13.[(Back)]
Footnote 543: Dupriez, Les Ministres, I., 291.[(Back)]
Footnote 544: Art. 6. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 5.[(Back)]
Footnote 545: Lowell, Governments and Parties, I., 166. On the Italian executive see Dupriez, Les Ministres, I., 281-329. An essay of value is M. Caudel, Parlementarisme italien, in Annales des Sciences Politiques, Sept., 1900.[(Back)]
Footnote 546: Of 1,528 appointments made between 1848 and 1910 but 63 were refused confirmation by the Senate.[(Back)]
Footnote 547: It is interesting to observe that, in the interest of governmental stability and permanence, Cavour favored the adoption of the elective principle in Italy. For illustrations of the weakness of the Italian Senate see C. Morizot-Thibault, Des droits des chambres hautes ou sénats en matière des lois de finance (Paris, 1891), 156-175.[(Back)]
Footnote 548: E. Pagliano, Il Senato e la nomina dei senatori (Rome, 1906); L. A. Magro, L' aristocrazia e il Senato (Catania, 1909); I. Tambaro, La réforme du Sénat italien, in Revue du Droit Public, July-Sept., 1910, and Les débats sur la réforme du Sénat italien, ibid., July-Sept., 1911; M. Scelle, Réforme du Sénat italien, ibid., Oct.-Dec, 1911; Nazzareno, La riforma del Senato, in Rivista di Diritto Pubblica, III., 171. The report of the commission of 1910 is contained in Per la riforma del Senato; relazione della commissione (Rome, 1911).[(Back)]
Footnote 549: Art. 36. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, II., 10.[(Back)]
Footnote 550: Lowell, Governments and Parties, I., 157.[(Back)]