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" Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in... "
Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 83
by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pages
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...majority of the whole ; a communication and concert, results from • he form of government itself ; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...individual. Hence it is, that such democracies have ever heen spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security,...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Constitutional history - 1842 - 492 pages
...majority of the whole ; a communication and concert, results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious indi46 THE FEDERALIST. vidual. Hence it is, that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 5; Volume 36

United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...majority of the whole ; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...Hence it is, that such democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property ; and have in general, been as...
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Speeches of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States

Andrew Johnson - Presidents - 1866 - 554 pages
...reading and reflection, of the truth of Mr. Madison's observation about pure democracies, that they ' have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention...in their lives as they have been violent in their " They knew that a large body of men is more liable to be controlled by passion or by interest than...
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a ...

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...whole; a communication and concert, results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing fo check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence_it_jat JJxat_auch democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever...
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1898 - 884 pages
...a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...contention; have ever been found incompatible with persona! security or the rights of property; and have in general .been as short in their lives as they...
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Journal of Accountancy, Volume 12

Accounting - 1911 - 662 pages
...control of popular impulse. The results were thus summed up by Madison in No. 10 of the " Federalist ": " Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in...
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Proceedings of the Nebraska State Bar Association, Volume 4

Nebraska State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 140 pages
...majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found incompatable with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in...
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Documents on the State-wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall

Birl Earl Schultz - Mental Recall - 1912 - 432 pages
...number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person"; and such democracies, he adds, "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention...personal security or the rights of property; and have been in general as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." He then went on...
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Readings in American Constitutional History, 1776-1876, Part 1

Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 614 pages
...a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such demo-^ cracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; ) have ever been found incompatible...
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