 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 pages
...would be necessary. In framing a government, which is to be administered by men overmen, the great difficulty lies in this : You must first enable the...and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 pages
...government would be necessary, framing a government which is to he administered men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience urns... | |
 | John Taylor - 1823 - 332 pages
...cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. " Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." " This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests,...better motives, might be traced through the whole u system of human affairs." " There are two considerations particularly applicable to the "federal... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 pages
...Government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you mustfirst enable the Government to control the governed; and, in the next place, oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the Government; but experience has... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 684 pages
...from the others." "In framing a Government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the...and, in the next place, oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the Governanother occasion, been shown... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1852 - 528 pages
...would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this; you must first enable the...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1854 - 424 pages
...desire of power to check power ; and the pressure of interest to balance an opposing interest. The policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests the defect of better motives in men, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see... | |
 | George Robertson - 1855 - 422 pages
...number hi says, that "in framing a government which is to DC administered by men, over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the...and in the next place, OBLIGE it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control of the government; but experii-nce has... | |
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In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the Government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. 
