Cyclopedia of American Government Volume 1 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...indicated, all expenditures conforming with laws. Bills are paid on his warrant. Pie ascertains that each claim is valid, payment authorized, funds appropriated and available, that all legal requirements are satisfied. He keeps classified records of verified disbursements, and reports in detail to the legislature, to which he is directly responsible. Discretion and fidelity in exercising these functions determine the extent of actual control, which varies among the states. Recent state boards of control partly supplant comptrollers. See Expenditures, State And Local; Purlic Accounts; Purchase Of Purlic Supplies And Property; State Departments, Heads Of. References: Constitution and laws of the several states which define powers and duties of State Comptroller; Woodrow Wilson, The CONCERT OF POWERS. Concert of powers is the term usually given to the union of the European powers for action upon any question which affects the general political situation, when the policy of a single state might be such as to disturb the existing relations among European states. The argument for the existence of such concerted action which might force one state to give up a plan upon which it had entered or which it contemplated, is that if a single state has a right to go to war to protect its vital interests, a group of states might with much more propriety join for a similar purpose when their concerted action would probably make war unnecessary. The "European Concert" in recent years has usually consisted of the six powers, AustriaHungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Russia. This group has acted upon various matters. The Treaty of Berlin of 1878 relates that the powers "being desirous to regulate with a view to European order" etc., "an...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...indicated, all expenditures conforming with laws. Bills are paid on his warrant. Pie ascertains that each claim is valid, payment authorized, funds appropriated and available, that all legal requirements are satisfied. He keeps classified records of verified disbursements, and reports in detail to the legislature, to which he is directly responsible. Discretion and fidelity in exercising these functions determine the extent of actual control, which varies among the states. Recent state boards of control partly supplant comptrollers. See Expenditures, State And Local; Purlic Accounts; Purchase Of Purlic Supplies And Property; State Departments, Heads Of. References: Constitution and laws of the several states which define powers and duties of State Comptroller; Woodrow Wilson, The CONCERT OF POWERS. Concert of powers is the term usually given to the union of the European powers for action upon any question which affects the general political situation, when the policy of a single state might be such as to disturb the existing relations among European states. The argument for the existence of such concerted action which might force one state to give up a plan upon which it had entered or which it contemplated, is that if a single state has a right to go to war to protect its vital interests, a group of states might with much more propriety join for a similar purpose when their concerted action would probably make war unnecessary. The "European Concert" in recent years has usually consisted of the six powers, AustriaHungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Russia. This group has acted upon various matters. The Treaty of Berlin of 1878 relates that the powers "being desirous to regulate with a view to European order" etc., "an...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 33mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

646

ISBN-13

978-1-231-05834-3

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9781231058343

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1-231-05834-X



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