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... Eloquence of the United States - Seite 2251827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 2005 - 408 Seiten
...the unsteadiness and injustice, with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other,... | |
| Peter Viereck - 200 Seiten
...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...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. ... If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle,... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 Seiten
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administration. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2005 - 160 Seiten
...interests. Madison defined factional interests in a way that should seem familiar with cases like Kelo: By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether...or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.14 Particularly during his tenure in state politics, Madison saw how quickly such factional... | |
| Warren Goldstein (Rabbi.) - 2006 - 526 Seiten
...to explain the concept of "factions." Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers 134 that a faction is "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." 135 Simply put, factions threaten the rights and 132. The Malbim, ibid., explains how the people's... | |
| Warren Goldstein (Rabbi.) - 2006 - 526 Seiten
...necessary to explain the concept of "factions." Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers134 that a faction is "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority...or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."135 Simply put, factions threaten the rights and 132. The Malbim, ibid., explains how the... | |
| Sigrid Rossteutscher - 2005 - 296 Seiten
...process. In the most famous number 10 of the federalist papers James Madison defined a faction as: A number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority...the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent or aggregate interests of the community. (Madison 1788/1 961) Madison, unlike Rousseau, did not see... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 Seiten
...factions — factions consisting of "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority ot the whole, who are united and actuated by some common...or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"23 — Calhoun seems to imply that all interest groups are factions, thus all are adverse... | |
| Giovanni Sartori - 2005 - 368 Seiten
...derogatory sense of the word though in a different and broader context. His definition was as follows: By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether...majority or minority of the whole, who are united and activated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens,... | |
| Siarlys Jenkins - 2005 - 272 Seiten
...in The Federalist Papers #10 that the powers of government are often swayed by a faction of citizens "united and actuated by some common impulse of passion,...interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens." Madison also noted that "leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power" would make use... | |
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