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" If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from... "
The Life of John A. Rawlins: Lawyer, Assistant Adjutant-general, Chief of ... - Page 484
by James Harrison Wilson - 1916 - 514 pages
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Volume 1

Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...has been used in political disquisitions. If we resort fora criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people : and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...been used in political disquisitions. If we resort for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people ; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...been used in political disquisitions. If we resort for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people ; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...been used in political disquisi* lions. If we resort, for a criterion, to the different principles OD which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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Report of the Select Committee [on] the Memorial of the Democratic Members ...

Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...in relation to the same subject, says : "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...bestow that name on, a government which derives all it* pavers directly or indirectly from the great body of the peofd"." * * ult is essential to such...
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Considerations on the Questions of the Adoption of a Constitution, and ...

Elisha Reynolds Potter - Rhode Island - 1842 - 76 pages
...39, p. 204) gives us his definition : " If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...been used in political disquisitions. If we resort, for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...bestow that name on, a government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding...
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Commentaries on Universal Public Law

George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...in political disquisitions." " If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which the different forms of government are established, we...derives all its powers, directly or indirectly, from the great body of the people ; and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution

Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...been used in political disquisitions. If we resort, for a criterion, to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...bestow that name on, a government which derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 3

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 602 pages
...the republican theory. " If," he wrote, " we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established,...derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for...
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