 | Gaspar Griswold Bacon - Law - 1928 - 232 pages
...seeking." He hopefully placed his faith in a chosen body of citizens, carefully selected by the people, "whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of...sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations." This, then, is our ideal of representative government — to select as public servants those who have... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1928 - 652 pages
...collective capacity from any share in government in the latter. The views of the public were to be refined by "passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the interests of their country." Such a system could safely be of large territorial extent. The opponents... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1996 - 588 pages
...the effect of representation is to "refine and enlarge the public views" by having them considered by "a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best...will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary considerations." This seems nearer to a Rousseauian, or Hamiltonian, conception of the general will,... | |
 | Dennis F. Thompson - Law - 2002 - 275 pages
...filter is also quite consistent with Madison's theory: the effect of representation in a republic is "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...may best discern the true interest of their country" ( The Federalist No. 10, 134). 79. For a philosophical analysis of the value of limiting information,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Political Science - 1885 - 412 pages
...Congressional Government, Wilson's views on deliberation differ from those of Madison. Madison sought "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."86 Madison was concerned about the proper "institutional environment" for promoting deliberation.... | |
 | Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen - Social Science - 2002 - 278 pages
...multitude" by "the delegation of the government ... to a small number of citizens elected by the rest" would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." The "public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people," Madison surmised, would prove... | |
 | Mark Hulliung - History - 2002 - 278 pages
...Publius (Madison) expressed his ardent hope that the new regime would be governed by rulers who would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." Publius (Hamilton) believed that "the idea of an actual representation of all classes of the people... | |
 | Christian Joerges, Renaud Dehousse - Law - 2002 - 394 pages
...'the effect of the . . . difference [between a direct democracy and a representative republic] is ... to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom might best discern the true interests of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice, will... | |
 | Elliott Abrams - Political Science - 2002 - 156 pages
...appointments by successive filtrations."4 In Federalist 10 he argued that the effect of representation was "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens. . . . Under such a regulation it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
...extended."16 The two solutions are, thus, first, to substitute representation for direct democracy, in order to "refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...through the medium of a chosen body of citizens," and second, to increase the transaction costs necessary to assemble a majority faction animated by... | |
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The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love... 
