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Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ks.Under Odilon Barrot as chief, a single republican, Bixio, foundacceptance, while out of gratitude to the clericals, Falloux becameminister of instruction. Such a coalition of elements, fundamentallyopposed, could not possibly be lasting; and the conflict with thepresident himself broke out in a few days. The fault was in theconstitution, which, since it rendered him as well as the ministersresponsible, created two responsibiUties, of which one cancelled theother. The retirement of de Maleville, minister of the interior,in consequence of his refusal to deliver up to the president the actsrelating to the Boulogne affair, was the first proof that the one mustnecessarily be subordinate to the other. In like manner the conflict THE PRESIDENT A\I) THE CONSTITCENT ASSEMHI.) 407 wa.s unavoidable between the two jxiwcrs that spran;^ from tin- sameroot of universal suffiMi^e, the legislative and the executive, l)ecausethe constitution assi<,nied to each of the two a sphere entirelv in(h-
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FiG. 78.— Louis Napoleon, as Il, .,.., ,,.. 1 i.... .... .■>lcel cnt:raviiig by EmHe Iichaixl ; urigiual skelch by Sebastien Cornu. about 1840. pendent and separate. The Constituent As.scnibly exercised thehighest law-making power wiihout any co-operation of the other func-tionar); the president posse.^sed no authority to dis.solve or a<lj()umthe assembly. On the otlior hand, the president apix)inted or dis- 408 THE PRESIDENCY OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. missed his ministers without having the least occasion to advert to thevotes of the legislative body. Should the two become opposed, thenonly the right of the stronger could decide; for the heir of the nameof Napoleon would have been the last man to be satisfied with thesubordinate role of executor of the decrees of the Constituent As-sembly. The simplest and most natural course would have been forthe latter to declare its mandate superseded by the establishment ofthe definitive government, and to have given way to a new assem-bly;

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