 Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in...  The Congressional Globe ... - Seite 145von United States. Congress - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Buddy Hanson - 2003 - 344 Seiten
...government at all.'" "* James Madison, known as the father of the US Constitution, wrote, "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." 167 Jefferson's preamble to the Declaration of Independence which states, "all men are created equal"... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 692 Seiten
...inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that... | |
 | Stephen F. Knack - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...society." In the absence of sufficient checks and balances on popular majorities, "democracies . . . have ever been found incompatible with personal security...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." In a letter to Jefferson, John Adams predicted: "Democracy will envy all, contend with all, endeavor... | |
 | John W Chalfant - 2003 - 266 Seiten
...Madison, writing a Federalist paper in 1787, argued for the Constitution by saying: ...Democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security...in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.22 There was not one man among the Founding Fathers who wanted a democracy. Thus, when we are... | |
 | Adam Przeworski, José María Maravall - 2003 - 338 Seiten
...became a countermajoritarian, antidemocratic device. In Madison's famous statement, "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...with personal security or the rights of property" (Federalist Papers 10). Elected governments, in the name of the majority, could infringe individual... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2007 - 422 Seiten
...inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...ever been found incompatible with personal security and the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 Seiten
...interest will ... be felt by a majority of the whole. . . . Hence it is that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...ever been found incompatible with personal security . . . and have . . . been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths" (Rakove... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - 2003 - 518 Seiten
...traditionalist position that democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, " and have been "as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. " — WTJG * Both Napoleon and Napoleon 111 established their authority by a mixture of repression... | |
 | R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. 38 Social choice theorists, who study how individual choices are aggregated irto group preferences,... | |
 | 2004 - 218 Seiten
...inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. This passage was inspired by Rhode Island; as a description of classical antiquity, Swiss communes,... | |
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