...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...

...Federalist, Madison wrote of democracies as having ever been "spectacles of turbulence and contention; incompatible with personal security or the rights...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Then he turned to the idea of a republic, and said: "By this I mean a government in which the scheme...

...inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...personal security or the rights of property; and have '" general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians,...

...the people. Thus James Madison, in the tenth of the Federalist papers, declared that pure democracies "have ever been found incompatible with personal security,...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Alexander Hamilton asserted that "the members most tenacious of republicanism were as loud as any in...

...constitution, from an absolute democracy, says of the latter: " Hence it is that such democracies .... have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property." The theory of our government therefore has placed upon the courts a function additional to that which...

...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...

...Madison means in Federalist number X, by the following language: "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention,...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. . . . A Republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens...

...individual. Hence it is, that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention and have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property. Those who patronize this species of government have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to...

...often been found incompatible with the personal security and rights of property, and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Undoubtedly, the framers of the Constitution in thus limiting popular rule did not take sufficient...

...of the work of the Constitutional Convention. Writing in The Federalist, Madison said: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretical politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed...