 | David J. Peterson - History - 1999 - 214 pages
...on the prospects for creating a new popular government, he declared: It has frequently been remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide the important question whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing... | |
 | Kenneth L. Deutsch, John Albert Murley - Philosophy - 1999 - 474 pages
...opening his defense of the proposed Constitution, Publius gave voice to what was widely recognized: that "it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide the question whether or not good government could be established through reflection and choice."... | |
 | Harvey C. Mansfield (Jr.) - Philosophy - 2000 - 362 pages
...uses pride in this fact as a motive for support of the Constitution: "It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people...for their political constitutions, on accident and force."5 The Constitution was an act of deliberate choice, and the republic it formed would depend... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Emphasis added. 13. See also Alexander Hamilton in the first Federalist: "It has frequently been observed that it seems to have been reserved to the people...are forever destined to depend for their political institutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American. . ALEXANDER HAMILTON THE FEDERALIST, NO. 1 It seems to have been reserved to the people of this...establishing good government from reflection and choice . . After the drafting of the Constitution, the people of the United States debated whether it was... | |
 | Moorhead Kennedy, Ralph Gordon Hoxie, Brenda Repland - Political Science - 332 pages
...governmental side, perhaps Hamilton and Madison in 1788 said it best. In Federalist No. 1, Hamilton observed, "it seems to have been reserved to the people of this...to decide the important question, whether societies . . . are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice." And to... | |
 | Piet Strydom - Social Science - 2000 - 356 pages
...welfare of the parts of which it is composed - the fate of an empire... It has been frequently remarked, that, it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men [sic!] are... | |
 | James H. Hutson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...process of ratifying the proposed new Constitution of the United States. Here are the crucial words: it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing... | |
 | Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall - History - 2001 - 448 pages
...(decision). Alexander Hamilton, therefore, began The Federalist by stating: "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people...for their political constitutions on accident and force."40 Accident and force replaced deliberation and choice more than once, not least in 1898. V... | |
 | E. Robert Statham - History - 2002 - 176 pages
...(decision). Alexander Hamilton begins The Federalist Papers by stating: It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people...for their political constitutions on accident and force.53 IV The US annexation of the offshore territories from Spain in 1898 (and the subsequent annexation... | |
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... whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident ;o and force. 
