[46] No. 81.

[47] The American Commonwealth, Vol. I, Ch. XXXII.

[48] Ibid.

[49] Roosevelt in 1904 received less than 56.4 per cent. of the total popular vote.

[50] In 1904 Roosevelt carried thirty-two states—two more than two-thirds.

[51] Poore, Charters and Constitutions.

[52] A. Lawrence Lowell, Essays on Government, p. 40.

[53] The Federalist, No. 78.

[54] "The object of the Act of Parliament was to secure the judges from removal at the mere pleasure of the Crown; but not to render them independent of the action of Parliament." Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Sec. 1623.

[55] Works (Ford's Edition), Vol. X, p. 38.