 | Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...inspired by a supposed influence over the people, -with an intrepid confideuce in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...this department, that the people ought to indulge all thcir jealousy, and exhaust all thcir precautions. In governments purely republican, the tendeney of... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - Ethics - 1812 - 732 pages
...ineapable of pursuing its objeets by means whieh reason preseribes,— it is against the enterprizing ambition of this department that the people ought...indulge all their jealousy, and exhaust all their preeautions." — " The legislative department, he adds, derives a superiority in our government from... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 756 pages
...inspired, by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength, which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jcfierson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...inspired by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means v hidi reason prescribes ; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department, that the people... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...inspired by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...and exhaust all their precautions. The legislative department derives a superiority in our governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate the multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable...their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions." In the fifty-first number of the same work, it is said that "ina republican Government the legislative... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...passions which actuate the multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objec's of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions." In the fifty-first number of the same work, it is said that " in a republican Government the legislative... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...strength; which js sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate [ THE FEDERALIST. 2/9 a multitude ; yet not so numerous as to be incapable...and exhaust all their precautions. The legislative department derives a superiority in our governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...inspired, by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength, which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...and exhaust all their precautions. ' The legislative department derives a superiority in our government from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...Constitutional Law. 193 ence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions...their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions." These are the sentiments of Mr. Madison, a wise and learned statesman, a tried patriot, and an approved... | |
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... duration of its power; and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions... 
