 | Jay Shafritz - 2004 - 319 страници
...structure that could function over a large area. As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 14: "In a democracy the people meet and exercise the government...representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region." Yet the Founders... | |
 | Colin Copus - 2004 - 336 страници
...involvement in political democracy, to Republicanism, or 'representation'. As Madison described it: 'in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government...administer it by their representatives and agents'. 9 As Crick points out: the important question for the founding fathers of the United States in designing... | |
 | John Lukacs - 2004 - 486 страници
...Federalist No. 14 Madison warned against "the confounding of a republic with a democracy. ... In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government...assemble and administer it by their representatives. ... A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a... | |
 | Colin Copus - 2013 - 248 страници
...involvement in political democracy to republicanism, or 'representation! As Madison described it: 'in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government...assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents!6 As Crick points out, the important question for America's founding fathers in designing a... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 страници
...The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is, that in a — to [. . .] As the natural limit of a democracy is that distance from the central point, which will just... | |
 | John Wesley Dean - 2007 - 364 страници
...involve its population. Later, Madison nicely explained the differences in Federalist No. 14: "In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government...representatives and agents. A democracy consequently will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."3 Under this Virginia... | |
 | 1911 - 744 страници
...The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is that in a democracy the people meet and exercise the government...representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot; a republic may be extended over a whole region. "To this accidental... | |
 | 1890 - 340 страници
...number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. * * * * In a democracy the people meet and exercise the government...representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region. . . . Under the confusion... | |
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It is that in a democracy the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. 
