 | Oliver Arnold - Business & Economics - 2007 - 362 pages
...sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. The effect of the first difference is ... to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...may best discern the true interest of their country. . . . it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will... | |
 | Christian G. Fritz - History - 2007
...those having virtue and wisdom. It was possible "to refine and enlarge the public views, bypassing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens,...wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."41 The federal convention combined its hope for refined leadership with the expectation that... | |
 | John M. Headley - History - 2008 - 316 pages
...achieved by representation on both the federal and state levels by the passage of such public issues "through the medium of a chosen body of citizens whose...best discern the true interest of their country," making the sacrifice to narrower interests less likely.91 By concluding with a number of not entirely... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - Political Science - 2007 - 423 pages
...republic, it became possible actually to improve upon popular rule. Under a republic, it was possible to 'refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens [that is, leaders], whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism... | |
 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - History - 2008 - 41 pages
...citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended. The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge...considerations. Under such a regulation it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public... | |
 | Jeremy Malcolm - Computers - 2008 - 641 pages
...public views would be refined was expressed by Madison, who held that the purpose of representation was to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public... | |
 | Elvin T. Lim - Political Science - 2008 - 208 pages
...founders preferred a democratic "republic," where a "scheme of representation takes place," which serves "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations." Thus, in a democratic republic, while the people are the source of political authority, they do not... | |
 | Scott J. Kester - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 146 pages
...number of factions and thereby diminishing the relative power of each. This will 'enlarge and refine the public views by passing them through the medium...sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.' In other words, those elected to national government will more likely be the "elect" of God in the... | |
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The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love... 
