Selections from the FederalistWilliam Bennett Munro Harvard University Press, 1914 - 202 Seiten |
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... proposed , moreover , that the central congress should be made up of representatives from the various states in proportion to their population , thereby setting aside the principle of equal state representation which had been recognized ...
... proposed , moreover , that the central congress should be made up of representatives from the various states in proportion to their population , thereby setting aside the principle of equal state representation which had been recognized ...
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... proposed Constitution on the public mind . THE FAULT - FINDERS It has been mentioned that the convention of 1787 met behind closed doors and that nothing was allowed to reach the public ear until its entire work was done . Naturally ...
... proposed Constitution on the public mind . THE FAULT - FINDERS It has been mentioned that the convention of 1787 met behind closed doors and that nothing was allowed to reach the public ear until its entire work was done . Naturally ...
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... proposed confederacies . But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations , but also on their placing and continuing themselves ...
... proposed confederacies . But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations , but also on their placing and continuing themselves ...
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... proposed confederacies would , at a period not very distant , be unquestionably more formidable than any of the others . No sooner would this become evident than the Northern Hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more ...
... proposed confederacies would , at a period not very distant , be unquestionably more formidable than any of the others . No sooner would this become evident than the Northern Hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more ...
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... proposed which is entirely free from real objections . These , as usual , would be exaggerated by the adverse interests of the parties . There are even dissimilar views among the states as to the general principle of discharging the ...
... proposed which is entirely free from real objections . These , as usual , would be exaggerated by the adverse interests of the parties . There are even dissimilar views among the states as to the general principle of discharging the ...
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Seite 63 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united 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 the community.
Seite 188 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Seite 163 - Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact and to every principle of sound legislation.
Seite 56 - It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy.
Seite 184 - No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded; The accumulation of all powers Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or manj% and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Seite 145 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Seite 195 - The other State which I shall take for an example is Pennsylvania; and the other authority, the Council of Censors which assembled in the years 1783 and 1784.
Seite 64 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated...
Seite 193 - Will it be sufficient to mark, with precision, the boundaries of these departments, in the constitution of the government, and to trust to these parchment barriers against the encroaching spirit of power...
Seite 187 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.