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 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Edward Gaylord Bourne - United States - 1901 - 462 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1901 - 486 pages
...administrations. By a faction, I understand a nuir^ber^qf ^citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a' minority 'o'f the whole, who are united and- actuated by some common inrpujge of^ passion, or of interest, tdversed to the rights^ of othef citizens, or to the permanent... | |
 | George Henry Shibley - Referendum - 1902 - 128 pages
...be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. * * * By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse... | |
 | James Allen Smith - Democracy - 1907 - 432 pages
...be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. . . . "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens,...and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1914 - 694 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice, with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - Constitutional history - 1914 - 220 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administration. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - United States - 1919 - 680 pages
...to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. ... By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest,... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - United States - 1923 - 168 pages
...is illustrated in Article 10 in The Federalist series: "Our greatest danger will be from factions. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of... | |
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