 | 1925 - 878 страници
...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.' However, the Constitution did not realize the intentions of its authors. To-day we are subject to all... | |
 | 1921 - 498 страници
...They had seen these democracies, one after another, fail. Alexander Hamilton said: Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. For centuries a democracy had been regarded by the statesmen of the world as nothing more than a beautiful... | |
 | Neil Colman McCabe - 2002 - 376 страници
...feared democracy, associating it with instability and the rule of the mob. "Democracies," wrote Madison, "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."18 The critical flaw in democracy, the framers believed, lay in its susceptibility to faction,... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 страници
...rehearsed ad nauseam by generations of political theorists. Madison himself wrote that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths."21 History was a witness to the truth of that comment. As for republics, all known and successful... | |
 | Thomas Goebel - 2002 - 324 страници
...the government in person," as offering no cure "for the mischiefs of faction." Thus "such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...personal security or the rights of property; and have been in general as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."5 Madison's arguments... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1996 - 588 страници
...small population living in a compact area. Such city-states admit of no cure for the evils of faction, and "have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Only in a republic, or, as we should call it, a representative democracy, is there hope of "the cure... | |
 | Jack J. Chinn - 2002 - 290 страници
...pessimistic when he said, "Democracies have always been spectacles of turbulence and contention, and as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." Many argue that our s|rpTng...lQ[?pgtitiitipri is the sole necessary 'Protector' of our freedom and... | |
 | Diana Saco - 2002 - 332 страници
...turbulence and contention . . . incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property . . . [ and ] as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths" (1988a, 46). 6. Madison alludes to this distinction between a political core and an administrative... | |
 | Buddy Hanson - 2003 - 344 страници
...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"... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - 2006 - 257 страници
...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. . . . A republic, by which 1 mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens... | |
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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... 
