 | William Lee Miller - 1993 - 316 pages
...equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties, at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation...advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Don't depend on enlightened statesmen to solve all of this: Madison wrote in one of the oft-quoted... | |
 | David J. Bodenhamer, James W. Ely (Jr.) - 1993 - 262 pages
...equal, nay, with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parries at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation...advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? . . . Justice ought to hold the balance between them.21 When legislation encroaches upon the liberties... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1994 - 284 pages
...and through a political process. "What are many of the most important acts of legislation," he asked, "but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning...concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens?" The protection of rights is not just a function of courts wielding their trumps, but the contingent... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 pages
...involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government. . . . What are many of the most important acts of legislation...advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?" For an excellent discussion of the "disinterested umpire" reading of the tenth Federalist, see Alan... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pages
...equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation...advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? . . . It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests... | |
 | Karol Edward Soltan, Stephen L. Elkin - 2010 - 229 pages
...equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation,...concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? 5 William Leggett, a passionate commentator on American politics in the Jacksonian period, makes a... | |
 | Gerald F. Gaus - 1996 - 391 pages
...equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation...rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of bodies of citizens? 26 Madison's worry seems applicable to the adjudicative roles of both voters and... | |
 | James W. Ely - 1997 - 464 pages
...equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation...but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?52 In his Farewell Address, President George Washington lauded the separation of powers and... | |
 | Patrick Murray - 1997 - 504 pages
...nay with greater reason, a body of men, are unfit to be both judges and parties, at the same time; yet. what are many of the most important acts of legislation,...rights of single persons, but concerning the rights ot large bodies of citizens; and what are the different classes of legislators, but advocates and parties... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - 1997 - 316 pages
...interests may be reconciled. "What are many of the most important acts of legislation," asked Madison, "but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning...persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens?"20 When the sphere of politics was "extended," when our political life took in a larger variety... | |
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same... 
