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" By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and... "
Readings on Parties and Elections in the United States - Page 29
edited by - 1912 - 354 pages
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Majority Rule in Combination with Representative Government in City, State ...

George Henry Shibley - 1902 - 128 pages
...be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. * * * By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...
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The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution : Its Origin ...

James Allen Smith - 1907 - 432 pages
...be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. . . . "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens,...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. . . . "... But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution...
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Readings in American Government and Politics

Charles Austin Beard - 1914 - 694 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice, with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,...
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The Government of the United States: National, State, and Local

William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 pages
...to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. ... By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest,...
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN COMMONWEALTH

ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1923 - 536 pages
...what he called faction, which appears in the tenth number of The Federalist. By a faction he meant "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority...permanent and aggregate interests of the community." "The latent causes of faction," he wrote, "are sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere...
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The Belgians, First Settlers in New York and in the Middle States: With a ...

Henry G. Bayer - 1925 - 432 pages
...William H. Nichols, while not referring to religion but to the safeguard of the nation, said in part: "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united by some common impulse of passion or of interest adverse to...
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History and Social Intelligence

Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 pages
...political life and activity is that contained in Number Ten of the Federalist, written by James Madison: By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. . . . 12 Cited by Bennett, op. cit., pp. 278-9; cf. Works, Vol. I, pp. 73-4, 8&-oo. The latent causes...
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The Trail of a Tradition ...

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - 1926 - 448 pages
...times, as to seemingly prophesy 1 No. 10. See // Hamilton Were Here Today, by Vandenberg, p. 199. * "By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,...
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Investigation of the Tariff Commission: Hearings Before the ..., Volumes 1-5

United States. Congress. Senate. Select committee on investigation of the Tariff commission - 1926 - 1524 pages
...Federalist is as follows :) By a fraction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a ajority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated .by some common ipulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to e permanent and aggregate...
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Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American ..., Volume 1

Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 452 pages
...science, Madison has explained the Federalist objections to political parties and party government. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether...permanent and aggregate interests of the community. ... If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle,...
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