 | Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...national proceedings. Hence tedious delays ; continual negociation and intrigue ; contemptible compromises of the public good. And yet, in such a system,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...national proceedings. Hence tedious delays ; continual negociation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good. And yet, in such a system, it... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - United States - 1831 - 758 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...that something may be done, must conform to the views • Add New York and Connecticut i0 the foregoing seven, and they will still be lex than * majoritj.... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings. IJence, tedious delays ; continual negotiation and intrigue ; contemptible compromises of the public... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 560 pages
...minority can control the opinions of the majority, in order that something may be done, a majority must conform to the views of the minority, and thus...smaller number will overrule that of the greater." — No. 22. "It has been said," says Mr. Madison, "that more than a majority ought to have been required... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...national proceedings. Hence tedious delays; continual negociation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good. And yet, in such a system, it... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...other, go forward. If a perti- I nacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respect- 1 ing the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order...something may be done, must conform to the views of the mi-l nority; and thus the sense of_the,8niaUfir_flB,mb,ftr,,wilL.ayer-rule that of the greater, and... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible com• Add New York and Connecticut to the foregoing seven, and they will still be less than a majority.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting...continual negotiation and intrigue ; contemptible com• Add New York and Connecticut to the foregoing seven, and they will still be less than a majority.... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Finance - 1910 - 176 pages
...interest. He said : — "The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority respecting...intrigue ; contemptible compromises of the public good." 2 1 In a brief speech delivered in the House, May 13, 1884, Mr. John Sherman of Ohio said : — "We... | |
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The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the... 
