 ... 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
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude; yet not so numerous a« to bo incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions by means which...ambition of this department, that the people ought toindnlge all their jealousy, and exhaust all their precaution." Mr. Jefferson, too, in his notes on... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 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. ments from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more extensive, and less susceptible... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 756 pages
...these resolutions pas^, 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 contemporaneously with its... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 776 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 - 1864 - 786 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 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... | |
 | 1865 - 696 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... | |
 | James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 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. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative'... | |
 | James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 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. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative... | |
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