 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 700 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. A people deliberating in a temperate moment, and with...bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. In this they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. A people deliberating in a temperate moment, and with...bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. In this they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...people deliberating In a temperate moment and with the experience of other nations before them, oo the plan of government most likely to secure their...bodies of men who might watch and check each other. "It wquld next occur to such a people that they themselves were liable to temporary errors through want... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...might be led. A people de» liberating In a temperate moment and with tbe experience of other nation* before them, on the plan of government most likely...trust between different bodies of men who might watch aud check each other. "It would next, occur to such a people that they themselves were liable to temporary... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...those charged with the public happiness might betray their trust. An obvious precaution against the danger would be, to divide the trust between different...bodies of men, who might Watch and check each other. In this they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1863 - 712 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient passions into which they themselves might be led. A people deliberating in a temperate moment, and with...bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. In this, they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. A people deliberating in a temperate moment, and with...bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. In this they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. A people, deliberating in a temperate moment, and...each other. " It would next occur to such a people," he said, " that they themselves were liable to temporary errors," from want of information, fickleness,... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1870 - 694 pages
...secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led. A people, deliberating in a temperate moment, and...of men, who might watch and check each other. " It Avould next occur to such a people," he said, " that they themselves were liable to temporary errors,"... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...other nations before them, on the plan of government most likely to secure their happiness, would fir^t be aware, that those charged with the public happiness...bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. In this they would be governed by the same prudence which has prevailed in organizing the subordinate... | |
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An obvious precaution against this danger would be to divide the trust between different bodies of men, who might watch and check each other. 
