 | 1916 - 932 pagina’s
...narrowly restricted. "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department (the legislative) that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions," said Madison. "The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing... | |
 | Charles Bingley Stuart - 1917 - 18 pagina’s
...multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of those passions, by all reason it is against the enterprising ambition of this department...the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and extend all their precaution. Its constitutional power being at once more exclusive and less susceptible... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1919 - 248 pagina’s
...Jay — laid down the doctrine that "against the enterprising ambition" of the legislative department "the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions. " But some of the precautions taken in framing the Constitution proved ineffectual from the start.... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - 1919 - 284 pagina’s
...— laid down the doctrine that "against the enterprising ambition" of the legislative department " the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions. " But some of the precautions taken in framing the Constitution proved ineffectual from the start.... | |
 | Arthur Ritchie Lord - 1921 - 352 pagina’s
...But in a representative democracy the source of danger is not the executive but the legislative. ' It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.' But it is in Paper No. LI that Madison, or more probably 1 Hamilton, best illustrates the spirit of... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - 1922 - 332 pagina’s
...legislature. " An elective despotism was not the government we fought for," wrote Jefferson, Madison argued that " the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions " in self-defense. So the first American invention in government was a curb upon legislative power,... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1924 - 728 pagina’s
...tendency in representative republics for legislative aggrandizement at the expense of other departments. "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." Were not the appropriations necessary to carry on the rest of the government under its control? Was... | |
 | John Steele - 1924 - 480 pagina’s
...activity; and drawing all power into its impetuous VORTEX"—and that "it is against the enterprizing ambition of this department, that the people ought...their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions." 2 Vol. Fed. letter 48. page 11.12.—ascribed to Mr. Madison. Am. Review No 3. page 32. 1. It will... | |
 | 1924 - 680 pagina’s
...They were reminded by Madison : "It is against the enterprising ambition of this department (Congress) that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions." And they had before them the Massachusetts statement of the American philosophy of government, made seven... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - 1925 - 420 pagina’s
...such departments shall exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others." — EDITOR. incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions,...their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions. The legislative department derives a superiority in our governments from other circumstances. Its constitutional... | |
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... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people)... 
