 In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation ; in which case, the rights of property and the public liberty will...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3931914Full view - About this book
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders of the Country would be the safest despositories of Republican liberty. In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common... | |
 | Jennifer Nedelsky - Law - 1994 - 358 pages
...Republican liberty," both public and private. It was the latter point that he stressed to the convention. In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These 54 will either combine under the influence of their... | |
 | Jennifer Nedelsky - Law - 1994 - 358 pages
...make an argument for freehold suffrage. Ketcham continues, "Madison added that though theoretically 'the freeholders of the country would be the safest depositories of Republican liberty/ he could not sanction departure from 'the fundamental principle that men can not be justly bound by... | |
 | Bernard Manin - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...this point, he won the support of Madison. "Viewing the matter on its merits alone," Madison argued, "the freeholders of the Country would be the safest depositories of Republican liberty." As a matter of principle, then, Madison favored the introduction of a freehold qualification. But at... | |
 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 566 pages
...was greatly tempted by the concept of a freehold franchise. "Viewing the subject on its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest...great majority of the people will not only be without landed but any other sort of property." This propertyless majority might then combine against the rights... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Law - 1999 - 836 pages
...several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders of the Country would be the safest...great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common... | |
 | David Ryan - United States - 2000 - 640 pages
...Madison recognised future threats that republican democracy might encounter from communism and fascism: In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed but any other sort of property. These will either combine. under the influence of their common... | |
 | David Ryan - History - 2000 - 270 pages
...Madison recognised future threats that republican democracy might encounter from communism and fascism: In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed but any other sort of property. These will either combine, under the influence of their common... | |
 | Thomas G. West - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...forms." Nevertheless, Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders [that is, landowners] of the country would be the safest depositories of republican liberty. In future times the great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 pages
...several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest...great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine, under the influence of their common... | |
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