...well-designed republic "the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people" would often be "more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves."3 Because representatives have the time, information, and institutional environment to...

...putatively "democratic" variety when he wrote there: "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudice, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption,...the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people."20 Public opinion turns out to be private opinion endowed with public power; in the absence...

...thoughtful form of democracy. "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 the purpose."2 Speaking of the proposed senate in "Federalist 63," Madison further insists: Such an institution...

...political advertisements, or eight-second sound bites. From this evidence, it seems very likely that "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or...sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by any other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people" (Madison,...

...interests. Thus it was underscored that in the Congress "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."35 It is in the Congress where the reason of the people is brought to bear upon the passions...

...Founding Fathers. It is the mind-set that argued 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. 32 In the sense of popular sovereignty, the people and their opinion were to rule, but public opinion...

...considerations; he explained in Federalist Paper No. 10 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." To attract the individuals whom they expected to naturally exhibit reasoned judgment, the Constitution's...

...views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens." The result, he argued, would be "more consonant to the public good than if pronounced...by the people themselves, convened for the purpose" (as quoted in Rossiter 1961, 82). 5. In recent years, theorists have advanced scores of proposals for...

...considerations. . . . [I]t 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. James Madison" In America the tensions between republicanism and democracy had been repressed during...

...attaining higher goals: "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 the purpose."5 Madison's criticisms of pure democracy depended on three assumptions. First, he believed...