 | Seymour Martin Lipset, Jason M. Lakin - Political Science - 2004 - 494 pages
...recognized long ago by James Madison, who wrote in The Federalist no. 10 under the name Publius that "the most common and durable source of factions has...without property have ever formed distinct interests in society."45 Following this reasoning, Lipset referred to elections as the "democratic class struggle."46... | |
 | Richard C. Box - Medical - 2005 - 178 pages
...old story, traceable at least to ancient Athens (Phillips, 1993). In 1787, James Madison wrote that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property" (in Rossiter, 1961, p. 79). The Levellers of the English revolution in the middle of the seventeenth... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 468 pages
...1961), 464. 7 Federalist No. 10 (J. Madison), in Rossiter, ed., The Federalist Papers, 79 (noting that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property"). Aristotle similarly criticized democracy as rule by "men of low birth and no property," which is true... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - History - 2004 - 214 pages
...of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property." Seen from this perspective, "those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society," and it was Madison's felt responsibility to craft a political system that would prevent the property-less... | |
 | David L. Faigman - History - 2004 - 440 pages
...from a free-market economy. In eighteenth-century America, wealth was equated with property ownership. "Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society."40 These natural and social circumstances would lead to division and could threaten the whole.... | |
 | Donald Gibson - Communication - 2004 - 178 pages
...Federalist Papers of the factionalism which arose around the unequal distribution of property. Madison: But the most common and durable source of factions has been the verious and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...frivolous and fanciful distinctions" of class or dress or manners, prompting envy, hatred, and anger "sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts." S9 For example, Madison notes individuals are given different natural abilities, gifts, and talents,... | |
 | Laurence Davis, Peter G. Stillman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 360 pages
...might act to overthrow the propertied and their property rights, see The Federalist Papers (no. 10): "the most common and durable source of factions has...property have ever formed distinct interests in society." See also Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Bk. V, Pt. IIl, Arts. II and III. Karl Marx in the Communist... | |
 | Bernd Wagner, Stefan Enzler - Business & Economics - 2005 - 412 pages
...perhaps dating back to an ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. James Madison also noted in 1787 that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property." Social polarization arising from struggles over the income distribution in turn can be a major impediment... | |
 | Ragnhildur Helgadóttir - Religion - 2006 - 297 pages
...founding of the Republic. Madison discussed the problem of factions in Federalist No. 10, noting that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property". 28 He went on to describe how the proposed constitution would control the effects of faction. One commentator... | |
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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... 
