 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 614 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 620 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal con trois on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,jthe^great_diflîculty lies in_this :^ must first enable the governmenjjtò control the governed;... | |
 | Lucilius Alonzo Emery - Courts - 1914 - 188 pages
...well as collectively, but not left able to oppress us or any of us. As said by Alexander Hamilton, we "must first enable the government to control the governed,...and in the next place oblige it to control itself." One great step toward such a form of government was made in the establishment of our federal and state... | |
 | Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 1920 - 262 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...and in the next place oblige it to control itself." By July, 1788, the Constitution had been ratified by nine States and therefore, under its terms (Art.... | |
 | Thames Williamson - Social problems - 1922 - 844 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. . . . This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the Universal defect of better motives,... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - Political science - 1923 - 522 pages
...understood as well as any modern statesman the true nature of this foremost problem of popular government. "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," he wrote in the tenth number of The Federalist, "the great difficulty lies in this: you must first... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional history - 1925 - 328 pages
...(1922), by Frederic J. Stimson, p. 7. Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist, No. 51, Feb. 8, 1788: "In framing a government, which is to be administered...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precaution." 2 A Bill of... | |
 | Lindsay Rogers - United States - 1926 - 310 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...control itself. A dependence on the people is no doubt a primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary... | |
 | James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...constituent parts may. by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their places. ... In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige... | |
 | Law - 1922 - 496 pages
...parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. * * * In framing a government which is to be administered...and in the next place oblige it to control itself." By the very definition of terms, the division of government into three department, if real, creates... | |
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies... 
