 | James Madison - 1997 - 140 páginas
...Constitutional Conventions The danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection...constitutional questions, to the decision of the whole society. . . . We are to recollect that all the existing constitutions were formed in the midst of a danger... | |
 | Jon Elster, Rune Slagstad - 1988 - 372 páginas
...explaining why not all constitutional disputes should be submitted to the general public for resolution: "Notwithstanding the success which has attended the...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1998 - 220 páginas
...people, the voice of every good citizen must be, let the former be sacrificed to the latter. (No. 45) NOTWITHSTANDING THE SUCCESS which has attended the...established forms of government, and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments... | |
 | J. L. S. Girling - 1998 - 196 páginas
...public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions' which, he says, would occur with 'frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society' (read 'the general will'). Madison takes Montesquieu's argument to its logical conclusion by proposing,... | |
 | Sotirios A. Barber, Robert P. George - 2001 - 354 páginas
...where he warned that "The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection...constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society."57 In Madison's view, the constitutional enterprise is better served by a citizenry whose... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 642 páginas
...community on its side. The danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection...intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed, ' Plato, /?f/>U«K, Bks. v-VI1. that the experiments are of too ticklish a nature to be unnecessarily... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 692 páginas
...community on its side. The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection...established forms of government and which does so much honor to the virtue and intelligence of the people of America, it must be confessed that the experiments... | |
 | Brian P. Janiskee, Ken Masugi - 2004 - 182 páginas
...recurrence to the people. . . . The danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection...constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society. 2' Madison feared that "frequent appeals" to the people "would, in great measure, deprive the government... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...democracy work. The problem with Jefferson's proposed solution to the problem, which would lead to the "frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society," is that it would disturb "the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions."... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 páginas
...stability." Second, he said, "[t]he danger of disturbing the public tranquility by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection...questions, to the decision of the whole society." But "the greatest objection of all," according to Madison, was that the people could not be trusted... | |
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The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society. 
