By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and... Eloquence of the United States - Página 2251827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Gaspar Griswold Bacon - 1928 - 232 páginas
...which they most feared was the danger from factions. "By a faction," says Madison in "The Federalist," "I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse or passion, or of interest,... | |
| Anne C. Rose - 2004 - 280 páginas
...wrote, must "break and control the violence of faction," with a "faction" defined as a group of citizens "actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of...or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."4 Americans continued to worry in the decades after 1830 about internal tensions provoked,... | |
| Evan Wolfson - 2007 - 258 páginas
...greatest danger to liberty is "faction ... a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated...of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights 172 of other citi/ens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."24 Despite this... | |
| Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 páginas
...of popular governments is their vulnerability to abuse by "factions." "By a faction," Madison wrote, "I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting...majority or minority of the whole, who are united and activated by some common impulse, or interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent... | |
| Julie Mertus - 2004 - 276 páginas
..."mischief's of factions," that is the danger posed where "a number of citizens . . . are united ... by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,...the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent aggregate interests of the community."281 NGOs present similar dangers, Leo realized. "They play a... | |
| John Spiller - 2005 - 356 páginas
...break and control the violence of faction ... By a faction, I understand a number of citizens . . . of interest adverse to the rights of other citizens,...permanent and aggregate interests of the community . . . Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2004 - 384 páginas
...the Madisonian world has gone "topsy turvy" as factions, defined as groups "activated by some common interest adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community,"4 have been transformed into sectors of public policy. "Indeed," says Wildavsky, "government... | |
| Ernest J. Wilson (III) - 2004 - 406 páginas
...emerging nation. In Federalist Paper Number 10, James Madison warned against combinations of citizens who, "united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest," might be adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to "the permanent and aggregated interests of... | |
| Ernest J. Wilson (III.) - 2004 - 406 páginas
...emerging nation. In Federalist Paper Number 10, James Madison warned against combinations of citizens who, "united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest," might be adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to "the permanent and aggregated interests of... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 páginas
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administration. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other,... | |
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