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" No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. "
Proposal & Ratification of Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S ... - Page 51
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1923 - 92 pages
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to...Let the national government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State governments with the civil...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to...Let the national government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State governments with the civil...
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Early History of the University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 576 pages
...management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one ; but to...Let the National Government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State Governments with the civil...
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Early History of the University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 568 pages
...management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one ; but to...Let the .National Government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State Governments with the civil...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...his retirement writes thus to a friend: " The way to have good and sate governments is not to trust all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing...he is competent to. Let the national government be intrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State governments...
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Fears for Democracy Regarded from the American Point of View

Charles Ingersoll - Democracy - 1875 - 310 pages
...their minds made up for them ? He urges on his correspondent that " the way to have good " and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, " but to divide it among the many ;" to divide and subdivide " these republics from the great national " one down, through all its subordinations,...
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Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public Education

John Cleaves Henderson - Education - 1890 - 414 pages
...within each ward, it is a belief against all experience. * * * My friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to...the National -, - Government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ; the State Governments with the civil...
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Report

Tennessee. Dept. of Public Instruction - Education - 1890 - 518 pages
...Cabell, dated February 2, 1816: "Let," says the sage of Monticello, "the National Government be intrusted with the defense of the nation and its foreign and federal relations; the State Governments with the oivil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns tre State gerenilly;...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...his retirement writes thus to a friend : " The way to have good and safe government is not to trust all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly tho functions lie is competent to. Let the national government bo intrusted with the defence of the...
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The University of Virginia: Jefferson Its Father, and His ..., Volume 37

James Coolidge Carter - 1898 - 48 pages
...excellent statement of his whole theory : ' ' No, my friend, ' ' said he, " the way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one ; but to...Let the National government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State government with the civil rights,...
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