 | Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - 316 pages
...would the legislature of a smaller and more homogenous country. As Madison noted in Federalist no. 10, "what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?"80 Such legislators are likely to decide matters according to the interest of the group... | |
 | Stephen M. Griffin - 1998 - 228 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,...but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?"24 This argument draws an explicit analogy between the judicial and the legislative process.2^... | |
 | Kenneth L. Deutsch, John Albert Murley - 1999 - 474 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, but so many judicial determmations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concernmg the rights of large... | |
 | Kenneth Murray Knuttila, Wendee Kubik - 2000 - 228 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? (79) In contemplating a mode of accommodating these inevitable factions, Madison considered and rejected... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 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 so many judicial determinations, not indeed of the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? Where men are... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - 356 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?83 Madison's views on separation of powers were also reflected in the writings of Thomas... | |
 | John A. Ferejohn, Jack N. Rakove, Jonathan Riley - 2001 - 430 pages
...then proceeded to reflect on the reasons why all such acts were susceptible to the pull of faction. "What are many of the most important acts of legislation,...concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens?" he asked. "And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes... | |
 | Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what . . . are the different classes of legislators...advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? (10:124) The exclusion of men from acting as adjudicators for causes in which they are themselves implicated... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 pages
...Observing that interest corrupts judgment when judging one's own case, Madison asks his reader: "[W] hat are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?" (Federalist 10, MP 10, 266). Arguing for the need in every republican constitution for an institution... | |
 | David J. Siemers - 2004 - 316 pages
...legislators is such an obvious fact to Madison that he asserts it simply by posing a rhetorical question: "What are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?"60 Legislators, just like factions, generally act in an interested manner. Does the representatives'... | |
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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... 
