 Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in...  Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - 第 83 頁George Robertson 著 - 1855 - 404 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Neil Colman McCabe - 2002 - 376 頁
...feared democracy, associating it with instability and the rule of the mob. "Democracies," wrote Madison, "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."18 The critical flaw in democracy, the framers believed, lay in its susceptibility to faction,... | |
 | Thomas Goebel - 2002 - 324 頁
...and administer the government in person," as offering no cure "for the mischiefs of faction." Thus "such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...personal security or the rights of property; and have been in general as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."5 Madison's arguments... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 頁
...majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of Government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. The consequences of pure democracy are stark: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2003 - 432 頁
...a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice...ever been found incompatible with personal security and the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent... | |
 | John W Chalfant - 2003 - 266 頁
...Madison, writing a Federalist paper in 1787, argued for the Constitution by saying: ...Democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security...in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.22 There was not one man among the Founding Fathers who wanted a democracy. Thus, when we are... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 頁
...anything can happen in politics." passion or interest will ... be felt by a majority of the whole. . . . Hence it is that such Democracies have ever been spectacles...ever been found incompatible with personal security . . . and have . . . been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths" (Rakove... | |
 | Adam Przeworski, José María Maravall - 2003 - 338 頁
...majorities. That is, it became a countermajoritarian, antidemocratic device. In Madison's famous statement, "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...with personal security or the rights of property" (Federalist Papers 10). Elected governments, in the name of the majority, could infringe individual... | |
 | Robert William Bennett - 2003 - 250 頁
...majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. FEDERALIST 10. If anything, Madison seemed to think that large-scale direct democracy would be worse:... | |
 | Al Snow, Al Snow, Sr. - 2004 - 174 頁
...was a democracy that did not commit suicide." James Madison (the father of the Constitution) said, "...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...in their lives as they have been violent in their death." The word "democracy" cannot be found mentioned in the Constitution or in the Declaration of... | |
 | Brian Z. Tamanaha - 2004 - 196 頁
...Citing historical instances of abuses by democracies, Madison wrote: "Hence it is that such [direct] democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...personal security or the rights of property; and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."47 They understood... | |
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