 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 692 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...establishing good government from reflection and choice." But reflective men know that politics cannot ignore the role of "accident and force" in human affairs,... | |
 | Sunil Bastian, Robin Luckham - Political Science - 2003 - 356 pages
...in The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton argued that the people of the United States had to determine the important question 'whether societies of men are...not of establishing good government from reflection or choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident... | |
 | Lance Banning - History - 2004 - 116 pages
...defense of ratification of the new Constitution drafted in Philadelphia, Alexander Hamilton declared, "It seems to have been reserved to the people of this...depend, for their political Constitutions, on accident or force." This question, as Lance Banning eloquently tells us, continued to be debated after ratification,... | |
 | Peter M. Shane - Computers - 2004 - 310 pages
...no. 1, "to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force" (Hamilton, Alexander, and Jay 1961: 33). The new governmental design promoted deliberation in part... | |
 | Peter M. Shane - Computers - 2004 - 310 pages
...no. 1, "to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force" (Hamilton, Alexander, and Jay 1961: 33). The new governmental design promoted deliberation in part... | |
 | Glenn W. Smith - Political Science - 2004 - 264 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force,'' Hamilton wrote in 1787. Reflection and choice correspond to the covenant tradition. Force corresponds... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...self-government. The American people, according to Hamilton, were apparently called upon "to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force." 1 2 Only against the backdrop of democracy's historical failures is it possible to understand the intention,... | |
 | David L. Faigman - History - 2004 - 440 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...for their political constitutions on accident and force."4 But it was not simply a chosen few who would impose their sense of political enlightenment... | |
 | Thomas H. Stanton, Benjamin Ginsberg - Political Science - 2004 - 332 pages
...Books, 1961); the question posed by the debate over ratification of the Constitution, per Hamilton, is "whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force". 7. For a more complete story of this development, see Daniel Guttman and Barry Willner, The Shadow... | |
 | Orestes A. Brownson - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...the American people live with a peculiar destiny: "to decide the important question, whether icties of men are really capable or not of establishing good...for their political constitutions on accident and lorcc." Browson agreed and, taking advantage of a reflective mood alter the bloodshed ot the War Between... | |
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It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... 
