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" In the compound Republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the... "
The Congressional Globe - Page 297
by United States. Congress - 1833
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Americanism: A World Menace

W. T. Colyer - United States - 1922 - 180 pages
...President. In another issue of the same reactionary print we find another writer committing himself thus : " It is of great importance in a Republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the...
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The Way of Composition: An Introduction to the Analytical Study of the Forms ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric, University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American prose literature - 1925 - 424 pages
...parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. ... It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the...
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The General Welfare Clause: A Study of the Power of Congress Under the ...

James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among each and separate departments. Hence a double security...same time that each will be controlled by itself. It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 81

Law - 1915 - 532 pages
...on the government, but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. * * * It is of great importance in a republic not only to...oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. * * * In a society, under the forms of which the...
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Madison V. Marshall: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the United States ...

Guy Padula - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 214 pages
...is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double...other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.169 Madison's argument that the states might legitimately protect constitutional rights rests...
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Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline ...

John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double...other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.3 But this scheme, for all intents and purposes, is failing. Power is steadily flowing from...
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Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism

Martha Derthick - Political Science - 2004 - 222 pages
...is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double...other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.16 No such result is evident in the tobacco case. The different governments did not control...
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Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment

Bernard H. Siegan - Law - 356 pages
...state and national powers and by the separation of powers within the states. "Hence," wrote Madison, "a double security arises to the rights of the people....other at the same time that each will be controlled by itself."9* Madison sought to strengthen this security by supporting in the Constitutional Convention...
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The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and ...

Mark Robert Killenbeck - Law - 2002 - 214 pages
...distinct and separate departments," in other words, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.190 "Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will controul each other; at the same time that each will be controuled by itself."191 As I argued earlier,...
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The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court

Cass R. Sunstein, Richard A. Epstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 pages
...governments, and then subjecting each to the separation of powers, James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, "a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will controul each other; at the same time that each will be controuled by itself." 54 This is nowhere truer...
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