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" It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... "
The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ... - Page 3
by James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 671 pages
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The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution--And Why We Need It ...

Cass Sunstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 326 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this...
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Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the ...

Paul T. McCartney - History - 2006 - 392 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this...
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The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

Michael Lind - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made, and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this...
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Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the ...

Paul T. McCartney - History - 2006 - 392 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this...
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The World Anew: What Is the Messiah Waiting For?

Paul Zecos - 2006 - 467 pages
...country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men [humans] are really capable or not of establishing good government...be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we have arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a...
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Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America

Mark Lloyd - Political Science - 2010 - 352 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force. Constructing a Republic —Alexander Hamilton The problem of democracy taken up by the men who gathered...
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Land and Liberty II: The Basics of Traditional American History

David Saxe - History - 2006 - 223 pages
...Alexander Hamilton begins with the recognition that the Constitution decides the important question of "whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force." Opting to give reflection and choice a thorough consideration in the Constitution, Hamilton starts...
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Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order

Walter F. Murphy - Law - 2007 - 588 pages
...political system. Founders must address the question Hamilton posed in the opening paper of The Federalist: "whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force." A more positive reason for drafting a text is that subsequent debates about adoption may teach citizens...
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Crafting Constitutional Democracies: The Politics of Institutional Design

Edward V. Schneier - Law - 2006 - 288 pages
...of this country," Alexander Hamilton wrote in defense of the American constitution, "to decide . . . whether societies of men are really capable or not...for their political constitutions on accident and force."7 Hamilton was perhaps exaggerating the abstract nature of the process: "How the framers at...
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Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison

Stephen L. Elkin - Political Science - 2006 - 428 pages
...conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable of establishing good government from reflection and...their political constitutions, on accident and force." 3. Cf. Edmund S. Morgan's comment that "Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at...
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