 | Douglass Adair - History - 2000 - 230 pages
...regular vote." But what if a ruthless and overbearing party included 60 or 70 percent of the electorate? When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government.. .enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and rights of other... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...equal natural rights of the citizens as much as the subornation of justice in the judicial system: "When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government . . . enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Federalist No. 10 (1787) 1961:79. 4 To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of. . . faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then... | |
 | Roberto Gargarella - Law - 2001 - 180 pages
...then, when the source of the factional oppression came from a majority group? According to Madison, "when a majority is included in a faction, the form...passion or interest, both the public good and the right of the other citizens." The real danger to be prevented, then, was the one derived from majority... | |
 | Donald P. Racheter, Richard E. Wagner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 330 pages
...self-interested majorities as the greatest threat to liberty and property in a republican government. "To secure public good, and private rights, against the danger of such a faction, and the same time to preserve the spirit and form of popular government, is then the great object to which... | |
 | Catharine Cookson - Religion - 2001 - 288 pages
...of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. . . . When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular go\ ernment, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the... | |
 | Guy Padula - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 214 pages
...Federalist 10, Madison's famous essay on the subject of factions, he addresses the question of how "to secure the public good and private rights against the danger of [majority faction], and at the same time to preserve the spirit and form of popular government."55... | |
 | Mark E. Rush, Richard Lee Engstrom - Law - 2001 - 216 pages
...class, to the lasting detriment of the whole" (1994, 275). 9 In a similar vein, Madison argued that "to secure the public good and private rights against the danger of ... faction and at the same time to preserve the spirit and form of popular government, is then the... | |
 | Dennis F. Thompson - Law - 2002 - 275 pages
...overbearing majority .... When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government . . . enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest...the public good and the rights of other citizens" ( The Federalist No. 10, 129-30, 132). 62. Compare Justice Scalia's comment that "the net effect of... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - Mathematics - 2002 - 304 pages
...mercy of the other." The framers were well aware that simple majority rule would empower a majority "to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both...the public good and the rights of other citizens." One crucial safeguard was the requirement that for issues of great importance or great delicacy, a... | |
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To secure the public good, and private rights, against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of a popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed. 
