 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together ; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together ; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...administer the government in person, can admit of no cure from the mischief* of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...proportion to the number combined together; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. Fiom this view of the subject, it may be concluded, that...administer the government in person, can admit of no cure from the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together ; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...administer the government in person, can admit of no cure from the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case be felt by a... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...circumstances? This they could not do.f" Madison observes that a pure democracy, by which he means a society consisting of a small number of citizens,...government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. "A common passion," he continues, "or interest, will in almost every instance... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together ; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...administer the government in person, can admit of no cure from the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every ease, be felt by... | |
 | American essays - 1925 - 1116 pages
...democracy had brought upon the nation. Said James Madison: 'A pure democracy, by which I mean a State consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble...government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, and... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From...Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority... | |
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I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. 
