 | Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, of of the minority will be in little danger from interested...of the majority. In a free government the security tor civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...from, and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals,...the one case, in the multiplicity of interests, and § 475. The union of these states, " the more perfect union " is, then, and must for ever be invaluable... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
...from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals,...danger from interested combinations of the majority. Irj a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...writers of the " Federalist," sought for, by placing power in the hands of so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, "that the rights of individuals,...danger from interested combinations of the majority." This is precisely the same principle which has always been so conspicuous in the British Constitution,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citisens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority,...must be the same as that for religious rights. It qonsists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if * Federalist, 2. not impracticable In a free government the security for civil rights...interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects."* That Madison should have given so absurd a reason for security in the new constitution, can be explained... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals,...the multiplicity of interests ; and, in the other, of the multiplicity of sects.1 The degree of security in both cases will 1 Mr. Madison wns accustomed... | |
 | Jacob Barker - Reconstruction - 1866 - 248 pages
...from, and dependent on the socie'ty, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals,...danger from interested combinations of the majority.'' "With what perfectness of comprehension did the mind of James Madison grasp this difficult question... | |
 | Jacob Barker - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 240 pages
...from, and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, ipitt be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority." With what pcrfectness of comprehension... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...the society itself will be broken into '•£o many pauta^-LuiarostB^-aad classes of citizeaa,_that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will...security for civil rights must be the same as that for roli-. gious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other,... | |
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Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested... 
