 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1928 - 652 pages
...stating that ' ' the mostcommon and durable source of factions has been the various and. unequal division of property. Those who hold and those who are without...property have ever formed distinct interests in society.' * This cleavage was scarcely represented in the Convention. _The majonty_pf^ itsjmembers^were lawyers^... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1947 - 280 pages
...Papers, James Madison made some sage observations not impertinent here. Among other things he said : The most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequaled distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...inequalities of condition, meaning especially thereby inequalities of wealth and property. As Madison puts it, "the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property."67 While people differ in mathematical, musical, artistic, and athletic abilities, it is... | |
 | Melissa S. Williams - Philosophy - 2000 - 350 pages
...any internal harmony of these interests can be worked through a hierarchical ordering of classes.49 "Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society."50 Moreover, the different interests created by class, opinion, religion, and sectoral concerns... | |
 | George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, Michael MacKuen - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...animosities that where no substantial occasion presents itself the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay 1961 1 1787], 58-59) The cure for the human vice of faction and the zeal... | |
 | Douglass Adair - History - 2000 - 230 pages
...animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts."79 Hume, in his parallel passage presents copious examples. He cites the rivalry of the... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...show itself in "the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions," causing jealousy, resentment, and anger "sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts" (124). Wherever people come together, they will end up fighting— ostensibly over policies and principles... | |
 | J. Eric Oliver - Political Science - 2001 - 286 pages
...nature of man and we sec them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity. But the most common durable source of factions has been the various and...property have ever formed distinct interests in society . . . The regulation of these interests forms the principle task of modern legislation." (Hamilton,... | |
 | Christine A. Kelly - History - 2001 - 220 pages
...source of threat he seeks to protect "government" from: The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property....property have ever formed distinct interests in society. The regulation of these various interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves... | |
 | Sara S. Chapman, Ursula S. Colby - Political Science - 2001 - 266 pages
...was to prevent, or at least to contain: "The most common and durable source of factions," he wrote, "has been the various and unequal distribution of...property, have ever formed distinct interests in society." Yet, in a uniquely democratic paradox, he held that government must protect, not diminish, the very... | |
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So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly pas/sions and excite their most violent... 
