 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may well happen, that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interest of the people. The question resulting is whether small or extensive republics are most favourable... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may well happen, that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...other hand the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tem5 pers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption, or by other... | |
 | George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...considerations. Under such regulation it may well happen that the public voice pronounced by the representatives of the people will be more consonant to the public...means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interest of the people. The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics are most favourable... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may well happen, that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...by other means first obtain the suffrages and then bctnfy the interests of the people. The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...such a regulation, it may well happen, that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of S the people, will be more consonant to the public good,...pro[nounced by the people themselves, convened for the piupose.* On the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of fqctiouj tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption, or by... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1114 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may .well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...by the people themselves convened for the purpose." — X Essay of Federalist. And then Madison argues with unanswerable logic to the effect that a representative... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 516 pages
...regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, and will be more consonant to the public good than if...the people themselves convened for the purpose.''' Now, permit me to quote Mr. Jefferson upon this subject, in a letter which he wrote to Mr. Coray :... | |
 | Joseph Weldon Bailey - Democracy - 1913 - 48 pages
...Under such a regulation it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. Not only has Madison in these unequivocal terms expressed himself in favor of a representative democracy,... | |
 | Charles Henry Betts - Campaign literature - 1913 - 106 pages
...Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...pronounced by the people themselves, convened for that purpose. — The Federalist, Letter X. Writing upon the same subject, Jefferson said : For let... | |
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Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. 
