... 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 which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as... The Bench and Bar of Mississippi - Page 41by James Daniel Lynch - 1881 - 539 pagesFull view - About this book
| Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions by means which...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
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions by means which...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
...multitude ; yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means v hidi reason prescribes ; it is against the enterprising...precautions. The legislative department, derives a superiority in our governments, from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate -a multitude ; yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which...precautions. The legislative department derives a superiority in our governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate the multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which...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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which...precautions. ' The legislative department derives a superiority in our government from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which...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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...these resolutions pass, bear testimony of the soundness of the political axiom, that it is " against this department that the people ought to indulge all...their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions." But the constitution, in this respect, has received a construction almost cotemporaneously with its... | |
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