 | 1811 - 584 Seiten
...in order to avoid the confusion, and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. " For the same reason that the limited powers of congress, and the control of the state legislatures,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 Seiten
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here, the observations which were applied to the case of biennial... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 Seiten
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here, the observations which were applied to the case of biennial... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...of a large deliberative assembly to be disorderly and tumultuous — "If every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Mr. P. said he should vote against 44,000 and against 48,000 — he was in favor of 50,000. There is... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 778 Seiten
...of a large deliberative assembly to be disorderly and tumultuous — " If every Athenian c.tizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Mr. P. said he should vote against 44,000 and against 48,000 — he was in favor of 50,000. There is... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 736 Seiten
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 Seiten
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1852 - 528 Seiten
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 Seiten
...very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates,...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." The foregoing principles are not only very plain to the sense of everyone, but they are about the only... | |
 | 1855 - 646 Seiten
...intelligent and high-minded men lending their authority to such proceedings. Mr. Madison remarked, "had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob;" and what was true of that ancient Republic should be guarded iigainst in the present day. An assembly... | |
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In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. 
